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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using a Large Monolingual Corpus to Improve Translation Accuracy
The existence of a phrase in a large monolingual corpus is very useful information, and so is its frequency. We introduce an alternative approach to automatic translation of phrases/sentences that operationali...
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Article
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of questions that are handled, and n...
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Article
Quality estimation for machine translation: preface
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Connecting Vision and Language with Localized Narratives
We propose Localized Narratives, a new form of multimodal image annotations connecting vision and language. We ask annotators to describe an image with their voice while simultaneously hovering their mouse ove...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
PACTran: PAC-Bayesian Metrics for Estimating the Transferability of Pretrained Models to Classification Tasks
With the increasing abundance of pretrained models in recent years, the problem of selecting the best pretrained checkpoint for a particular downstream classification task has been gaining increased attention....