We present LLCCM, a log-linear variant of the constituent context model (CCM) of grammar induction. LLCCM retains the simplicity of the original CCM but extends robustly to long s...
In this paper, we show that Higher-Order Coloured Unification - a form of unification developed for automated theorem proving - provides a general theory for modeling the interfac...
hfformation structure can be of great use in linguistic applications, especially in those involving a speech component. However, focus marking by prosody is often ambiguous. Exist...
This paper describes the KomParse system, a natural-language dialog system in the three-dimensional virtual world Twinity. In order to fulfill the various communication demands be...
This paper outlines ProSynth, an approach to speech synthesis which takes a rich linguistic structure as central to the generation of natural-sounding speech. We start from the as...
Richard Ogden, Sarah Hawkins, Jill House, Mark Huc...