In this paper we present an approach to recognition confidence scoring and a set of techniques for integrating confidence scores into the understanding and dialogue components of ...
Timothy J. Hazen, Stephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifro...
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...
We survey the use of weighted finite-state transducers (WFSTs) in speech recognition. We show that WFSTs provide a common and natural representation for HMM models, context-depend...
A spoken language generation system has been developed that learns to describe objects in computer-generated visual scenes. The system is trained by a `show-and-tell' procedu...
Spatialapplications must managepartwhole (PW) relationships between spatial objects, for example, the division of an administrative region into zones based on land use. Support fo...
Rosanne Price, Nectaria Tryfona, Christian S. Jens...