Ruiqiang Zhang


2010

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Learning Recurrent Event Queries for Web Search
Ruiqiang Zhang | Yuki Konda | Anlei Dong | Pranam Kolari | Yi Chang | Zhaohui Zheng
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2009

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Search Engine Adaptation by Feedback Control Adjustment for Time-sensitive Query
Ruiqiang Zhang | Yi Chang | Zhaohui Zheng | Donald Metzler | Jian-yun Nie
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers

2008

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Improved Statistical Machine Translation by Multiple Chinese Word Segmentation
Ruiqiang Zhang | Keiji Yasuda | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

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Chinese Unknown Word Translation by Subword Re-segmentation
Ruiqiang Zhang | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Volume-I

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Method of Selecting Training Data to Build a Compact and Efficient Translation Model
Keiji Yasuda | Ruiqiang Zhang | Hirofumi Yamamoto | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Volume-II

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Achilles: NiCT/ATR Chinese Morphological Analyzer for the Fourth Sighan Bakeoff
Ruiqiang Zhang | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the Sixth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

2007

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The NICT/ATR speech translation system for IWSLT 2007
Andrew Finch | Etienne Denoual | Hideo Okuma | Michael Paul | Hirofumi Yamamoto | Keiji Yasuda | Ruiqiang Zhang | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

This paper describes the NiCT-ATR statistical machine translation (SMT) system used for the IWSLT 2007 evaluation campaign. We participated in three of the four language pair translation tasks (CE, JE, and IE). We used a phrase-based SMT system using log-linear feature models for all tracks. This year we decoded from the ASR n-best lists in the JE track and found a gain in performance. We also applied some new techniques to facilitate the use of out-of-domain external resources by model combination and also by utilizing a huge corpus of n-grams provided by Google Inc.. Using these resources gave mixed results that depended on the technique also the language pair however, in some cases we achieved consistently positive results. The results from model-interpolation in particular were very promising.

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Boosting Statistical Machine Translation by Lemmatization and Linear Interpolation
Ruiqiang Zhang | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Companion Volume Proceedings of the Demo and Poster Sessions

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Learning Unsupervised SVM Classifier for Answer Selection in Web Question Answering
Youzheng Wu | Ruiqiang Zhang | Xinhui Hu | Hideki Kashioka
Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL)

2006

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The NiCT-ATR statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2006
Ruiqiang Zhang | Hirofumi Yamamoto | Michael Paul | Hideo Okuma | Keiji Yasuda | Yves Lepage | Etienne Denoual | Daichi Mochihashi | Andrew Finch | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign

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Subword-Based Tagging for Confidence-Dependent Chinese Word Segmentation
Ruiqiang Zhang | Genichiro Kikui | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions

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Subword-based Tagging by Conditional Random Fields for Chinese Word Segmentation
Ruiqiang Zhang | Genichiro Kikui | Eiichiro Sumita
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers

2005

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A decoding algorithm for word lattice translation in speech translation
Ruiqiang Zhang | Genichiro Kikui | Hirofumi Yamamoto | Wai-Kit Lo
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

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Using multiple recognition hypotheses to improve speech translation
Ruiqiang Zhang | Genichiro Kikui | Hirofumi Yamamoto
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

2004

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A Unified Approach in Speech-to-Speech Translation: Integrating Features of Speech recognition and Machine Translation
Ruiqiang Zhang | Genichiro Kikui | Hirofumi Yamamoto | Frank Soong | Taro Watanabe | Wai Kit Lo
COLING 2004: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1999

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Applying Extrasentential Context To Maximum Entropy Based Tagging With A Large Semantic And Syntactic Tagset
Ezra Black | Andrew Finch | Ruiqiang Zhang
1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora