Selecting actions for resource-bounded information extraction using reinforcement learning
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
SampleRank training for phrase-based machine translation
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
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Over the past two decades, statistical machine learning approaches to natural language processing have largely replaced earlier logic-based systems. These probabilistic methods have proven to be well-suited to the ambiguity inherent in human communication. However, the shift to statistical modeling has mostly abandoned the representational advantages of logic-based approaches. For example, many language processing problems can be more meaningfully expressed in first-order logic rather than propositional logic. Unfortunately, most machine learning algorithms have been developed for propositional knowledge representations. In recent years, there have been a number of attempts to combine logical and probabilistic approaches to artificial intelligence. However, their impact on real-world applications has been limited because of serious scalability issues that arise when algorithms designed for propositional representations are applied to first-order logic representations. In this thesis, we explore approximate learning and inference algorithms that are tailored for higher-order representations, and demonstrate that this synthesis of probability and logic can significantly improve the accuracy of several language processing systems.