no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Elizabeth Boschee, Joel Barry, Jayadev Billa, Marjorie Freedman, Thamme Gowda, Constantine Lignos, Chester Palen-Michel, Michael Pust, Banriskhem Kayang Khonglah, Srikanth Madikeri, Jonathan May, Scott Miller
In this paper we present an end-to-end cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) and summarization system for low-resource languages that 1) enables English speakers to search foreign language repositories of text and audio using English queries, 2) summarizes the retrieved documents in English with respect to a particular information need, and 3) provides complete transcriptions and translations as needed.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2018 • Nelson F. Liu, Jonathan May, Michael Pust, Kevin Knight
Most statistical machine translation systems cannot translate words that are unseen in the training data.
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • Ulf Hermjakob, Jonathan May, Michael Pust, Kevin Knight
In a corruption of John Searle{'}s famous AI thought experiment, the Chinese Room (Searle, 1980), we twist its original intent by enabling humans to translate text, e. g. from Uyghur to English, even if they don{'}t have any prior knowledge of the source language.
no code implementations • 24 Apr 2015 • Michael Pust, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Jonathan May
To make this work, we transform the AMR structure into a form suitable for the mechanics of SBMT and useful for modeling.