This paper demonstrates a new method for leveraging unstructured annotations to infer semantic document properties. We consider the domain of product reviews, which are often anno...
S. R. K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein, Re...
This work presents an agenda-based approach to improve the robustness of the dialog manager by using dialog examples and n-best recognition hypotheses. This approach supports n-be...
Cognitive theories of dialogue hold that entrainment, the automatic alignment between dialogue partners at many levels of linguistic representation, is key to facilitating both pr...
Rich computer simulations or quantitative models can enable an agent to realistically predict real-world behavior with precision and performance that is difficult to emulate in log...
In business processes, knowledge-intensive tasks are ones in which the people performing such tasks are involved in a fair degree of uncertainty. These people are required to appl...