Abstract. Natural language interaction between a student and a tutoring or an assistance system for mathematics is a new multi-disciplinary challenge that requires the interaction ...
We describe a corpus-based approach to natural language generation (NLG). The approach has been implemented as a component of a spoken dialog system and a series of evaluations we...
Speech act classification remains one of the challenges in natural language processing. This paper evaluates a classification system that assigns one of twelve dialog acts to an u...
In conversation, people often use spatial relationships to describe their environment, e.g., “There is a desk in front of me and a doorway behind it”, and to issue directives,...
Marjorie Skubic, Dennis Perzanowski, Alan C. Schul...
At Hewlett-Packard Laboratories we want to know how inexpensive it can be to endow mobile personal assistants with the ability to speak naturally with their users. To this end, we ...