Abstract. In this paper, we present a statistical approach for the automatic generation of dialogs by means of a user simulator. This technique can be used to generate dialogs with...
We have described previously a method of automatically constructing statistical models of shape. The method treats model-building as an optimisation problem by re-parameterising ea...
Rhodri H. Davies, Carole J. Twining, Christopher J...
A polyglot text-to-speech synthesis system which is able to read aloud mixed-lingual text has first of all to derive the correct pronunciation. This is achieved with an accurate m...
Many reordering approaches have been proposed for the statistical machine translation (SMT) system. However, the information about the type of source sentence is ignored in the pr...
This paper investigates bootstrapping for statistical parsers to reduce their reliance on manually annotated training data. We consider both a mostly-unsupervised approach, co-tra...
Mark Steedman, Rebecca Hwa, Stephen Clark, Miles O...