Statistical language models assign probabilities to sequences of words, and are used in systems that perform speech recognition, machine translation, and many other tasks. In recent years, language ...

John D. Lafferty, newly named as the John C. Malone Professor of Statistics and Data Science, conducts research on statistical machine learning, with a focus on computational and statistical aspects ...

Statistical language models assign probabilities to sequences of words, and are used in systems that perform text summarization, machine translation, question answering, information extraction, text ...