Many named entities contain other named entities inside them. Despite this fact, the field of named entity recognition has almost entirely ignored nested named entity recognition,...
A critical path in the development of natural language understanding NLU modules lies in the di culty of de ning a mapping from words to semantics: Usually it takes in the order o...
Video question answering aims to pinpoint answers in response to user's specified questions. However, most question answering technologies involve in integrating rich specifi...
How do we build multiagent algorithms for agent interactions with human adversaries? Stackelberg games are natural models for many important applications that involve human intera...
Speech enabled interfaces and spoken dialog systems are mostly based on statistical speech and language processing modules. Their behavior is therefore not deterministic and hardl...