We demonstrate that an unlexicalized PCFG can parse much more accurately than previously shown, by making use of simple, linguistically motivated state splits, which break down fa...
This paper describes the automatic creation of simple cinematic scenes and events that use film language (FL) as the basis for the creation of a visual story, aiming to improve it...
We propose a new statistical approach to extracting personal names from a corpus. One of the key points of our approach is that it can both automatically learn the characteristics...
Robust Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a key component of spoken dialogue systems. Recent statistical approaches to this problem require additional resources (e.g. gazettee...
While the use of test-driven development as a debugging, pedagogic, and analytical methodology for objectoriented and procedural systems is well documented, it is a relatively une...