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Opinionated document retrieval using subjective triggers

This paper proposes a novel application of a statistical language model to opinionated document retrieval targeting weblogs (blogs). In particular, we explore the use of the trigger model—originally developed for incorporating distant word dependencies—in order to model the characteristics of personal opinions that cannot be properly modeled by standard n-grams. Our primary assumption is that t...

Detecting Document-level Context Triggers to Resolve Translation Ambiguity

Most current machine translation systems translate each sentence independently, ignoring the context from previous sentences. This discourse unawareness can lead to incorrect translation of words or phrases that are ambiguous in the sentence. For example, the German term Typen in the phrase diese Typen can be translated either into English types or guys. However, knowing that it co-refers to th...

Nobel Lecture

Ladies and Gentlemen! It gives me great pleasure to be giving the Nobel Lecture before you. In it I shall be reporting on the results of my research for which the Royal Caroline Institute permit me here once again to give public expression of my deepest gratitude has awarded me the Nobel Prize. Naturally I can only present a fraction of these results and I shall have to content myself with tell...

Nobel Lecture

The sense organs respond to certain changes in their environment by sending messages or signals to the central nervous system. The signals travel rapidly over the long threads of protoplasm which form the sensory nerve fibres, and fresh signals are sent out by the motor fibres to arouse contraction in the appropriate muscles. What kind of signals are these, and how are they elaborated in the sa...