This paper describes an initial prototype demonstrator of a Companion, designed as a platform for novel approaches to the following: 1) The use of Information Extraction (IE) tech...
Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, We...
We present new results from a real-user evaluation of a data-driven approach to learning user-adaptive referring expression generation (REG) policies for spoken dialogue systems. ...
This paper presents a parse-and-paraphrase paradigm to assess the degrees of sentiment for product reviews. Sentiment identification has been well studied; however, most previous ...
We employ Maximum Entropy model to conduct sub-tree alignment between bilingual phrasal structure trees. Various lexical and structural knowledge is explored to measure the syntac...
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...