While the notion of a cooperative response has been the focus of considerable research in natural language dialogue systems, there has been little empirical work demonstrating how...
Abstract-- Traditional methods of spoken utterance classification (SUC) adopt two independently trained phases. In the first phase, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module ret...
Sibel Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Ac...
We present a method of grounded word learning that is powerful enough to learn the meanings of first and second person pronouns. The model uses the understood words in an utteran...
Stochastic context-free grammars (SCFGs) have long been recognized as useful for a large variety of tasks including natural language processing, morphological parsing, speech reco...
In this work, we describe a subword unit approach for information retrieval of items by voice. An algorithm based on the minimum description length (MDL) principle converts an ind...