The task of selecting information and rendering it appropriately appears in multiple contexts in summarization. In this paper we present a model that simultaneously optimizes sele...
Spoken language is one of the most intuitive forms of interaction between humans and agents. Unfortunately, agents that interact with people using natural language often experienc...
Abstract. This paper addresses the issue of post-transfer process in paraphrasing. Our previous investigation into transfer errors revealed that case assignment tends to be incorre...
We describe an implementation of datadriven selection of emphatic facial displays for an embodied conversational agent in a dialogue system. A corpus of sentences in the domain of...
An unsupervised discriminative training procedure is proposed for estimating a language model (LM) for machine translation (MT). An English-to-English synchronous context-free gra...
Zhifei Li, Ziyuan Wang, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Jason E...