In mostcases natural languageprocessingis seen as an isolated cognitive capability of a system. Languageunderstandingis often restricted to the mappingof natural languageexpressio...
Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
In this paper, we propose a data-oriented method for inferring the emotion of a speaker conversing with a dialog system from the semantic content of an utterance. We first fully a...
In BBN's natural language understanding and generation system (Janus), we have used a hybrid approach to representation, employing an intensional logic for the representation...
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel method for speaker identification based on both speech utterances and their transcribed text. The transcribed text of each speaker's utte...