Term selection process is a very necessary component for most natural language processing tasks. Although different unsupervised techniques have been proposed, the best results ar...
Abstract. Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is the user interface metaphor that allows to naturally communicate information during human-computer interaction in synergic modality...
Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study on four techniques of language model adaptation, including a maximum a posteriori (MAP) method and three discriminative training mo...
In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
The problem of the resolution of the lexical ambiguity, which is commonly referred as Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), seems to be stuck because of the knowledge acquisition bottle...