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ACL
2012
13 years 1 days ago
A Feature-Rich Constituent Context Model for Grammar Induction
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...
Dave Golland, John DeNero, Jakob Uszkoreit
ACL
1996
14 years 11 months ago
Higher-Order Coloured Unification and Natural Language Semantics
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...
Claire Gardent, Michael Kohlhase
COLING
1996
14 years 11 months ago
An Underspecified HPSG Representation for Information Structure
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...
Jonas Kuhn
ACL
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Talking NPCs in a Virtual Game World
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...
Tina Klüwer, Peter Adolphs, Feiyu Xu, Hans Us...
CSL
2000
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
ProSynth: an integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis
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...