Publications
"The LIA-Thales Summarization System at DUC 2006",
Document understanding Conference, Brooklyn, NIST, pp. 10 pages, jun, 2006.
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Résumé automatique de commentaires de consommateurs,
: Université de Montréal, aug, 2006.
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"Confidence Estimation for NLP Applications",
Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-29, oct, 2006.
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Statistical Query Translation Models for Cross-language Information Retrieval,
, vol. 5, New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 323–359, 2006.
"A Study of Statistical Models for Query Translation: Finding a Good Unit of Translation",
ACM-SIGIR, pp. 194-201, 2006.
"A supervised learning approach to entity search",
Information Retrieval Technology: Springer, pp. 54–66, 2006.
"Effective stemming for Arabic information retrieval",
The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT, International Conf. at the British Computer Society (BCS), pp. 68-74, 2006.
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"Improving query translation with confidence estimation for cross-language information retrieval",
CIKM '06: Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, pp. 818-819, 2006.
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"Compréhension et multilinguisme",
Compréhension automatique des langues et interaction, Paris, Hermes Science, pp. 18 pages, apr, 2006.
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"TransType2: une nouvelle approche pour un système d'aide à la traduction",
Technologies langagières et apprentissage des langues, Montréal, ACFAS, pp. 141-151, mar, 2006.
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"An information-theoretic approach to automatic evaluation of summaries",
HLT-NAACL, pp. 463-470, 2006.
"An Iterative Implicit Feedback Approach to Personalized Search",
COLING-ACL, pp. 551-559, 2006.
"TransType2: The Last Word",
Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy, may, 2006.
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"Learning Noun-Modifier Semantic Relations with Corpus-based and WordNet-based Features",
Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), 2006.
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"Toward a unified approach to cross-lingual and multilingual information retrieval",
Digital Library Forum, vol. 9, 2006.
"Inferential Language Models for Information Retrieval",
ACM Transactions on Asian Information Processing (TALIP), vol. 5, New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 296–322, 2006.
"MOOD: A Modular Object-Oriented Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation",
5th LREC, Genoa, Italy, pp. 709–714, May, 2006.
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"Finding Out: A system for providing rapid and reliable answers to questions in the construction sector",
Journal of Construction Innovation, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 250-261, 2006.
"Process-Specific Information for Learning Electronic Negotiation Outcomes",
Fundamenta Informaticae,, vol. 74, 2006.
"Filtering or adapting: Two strategies to exploit noisy parallel corpora for cross-language information retrieval",
ACM-CIKM, pp. 814-815, 2006.
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"Beyond Accuracy, F-score and ROC: a Family of Discriminant Measures for Performance Evaluation",
Proceedings of the AAAI'06 workshop on Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning, 2006.
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"Toward Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval",
Proc. of CLEF2004, Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images: Results of the Fifth CLEF Evaluation Campaign, 2005.
"Integrating Compound Terms in Bayesian Text Classification",
Web Intelligence, Compiègne, France, sep, 2005.
"Query Expansion Using Term Relationships in Language Models for Information Retrieval",
ACM-CIKM, nov, 2005.
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"Identification des rôles sémantiques par la classification",
Comptes rendus des 12es Rencontres de la {Société Francophone de Classification}, Montréal, Société Francophone de Classification, pp. 59–62, may, 2005.
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