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Laurie Gerber

Laurie Gerber has 2 papers in our library, in 1997–2001, most of them on Machine translation, English; often with Eduard Hovy, Chin-Yew Lin, Deepak Ravichandran.

2 papers in our library · 1997–2001

OpenAlex · h-index 8 · 30 works · 742 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 99 times in our library · 3 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5860

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 Affiliations

🏢Northrop GrummanFalls Church · United States2002 · 2 papers🎓University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles · United States1998–2001 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksInformation Systems · 1 work

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 1 workMachine translation · 1 work

💡 Concepts 1Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.Semantics · 1 work

 Works by year

2000s

20011 paper

1990s

19971 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Toward Semantics-Based Answer Pinpointing (2001 · 263 citations)
    The paper tackles a weakness in factoid question answering (QA). Most systems pick the answer by sliding a word-scoring window over retrieved text. That approach cannot mark exact answer boundaries, cannot recognize the semantic type of an answer such as a person or a place, and fails when answer pieces are spread…
  2. MT at the paragraph level: improving English synthesis in SYSTRAN (1997)
    Most machine translation systems handle one sentence at a time. Many output errors, however, come from phenomena that cross sentence boundaries. Hovy (USC/ISI) and Gerber (SYSTRAN) describe a research-to-industry project that adds a light discourse layer to the English synthesis stage of SYSTRAN's Japanese-to-English…

All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Toward Semantics-Based Answer PinpointingHuman Language Technology Conference (HLT)Eduard Hovy, Laurie Gerber, Ulf Hermjakob, et al.2001 · 263 citations
  2. SYSTRAN MT Dictionary Development ↗Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VI: Papers · no summary yetLaurie Gerber, Jin Yang1997 · 22 citations
  3. MT at the paragraph level: improving English synthesis in SYSTRANConference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural LanguagesEduard Hovy, Laurie Gerber1997
  4. SYSTRAN Chinese-English MT, ECI Chinese OCR - CHIOCR ↗Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas · no summary yetGerber, Laurie1996
  5. The Role of MT Evaluation ↗Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas · no summary yetScott Bennett et al.1994

 Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 99 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 13 citing papers with a page here →.

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