Abbreviated words carry critical information in the literature of many special domains. This paper reports our research in recognizing dotted abbreviations with MaxEnt model. The k...
Incremental processing is relevant for language modeling, speech recognition and language generation. In this paper we devise a dynamic version of Tree Adjoining Grammar (DVTAG) th...
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...
Abstract. This paper summarizes some of the current research challenges arising from multi-channel sequence processing. Indeed, multiple real life applications involve simultaneous...
Spoken dialogue is notoriously hard to process with standard language processing technologies. Dialogue systems must indeed meet two major challenges. First, natural spoken dialogu...