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ACL
1997
14 years 11 months ago
A Model of Lexical Attraction and Repulsion
This paper introduces new methods based on exponential families for modeling the correlations between words in text and speech. While previous work assumed the effects of word co-...
Doug Beeferman, Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
ACL
1997
14 years 11 months ago
Fertility Models for Statistical Natural Language Understanding
Several recent efforts in statistical natural language understanding (NLU) have focused on generating clumps of English words from semantic meaning concepts (Miller et al., 1995; ...
Stephen Della Pietra, Mark Epstein, Salim Roukos, ...
ACL
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Coreference Handling in XMG
We claim that existing specification languages for tree based grammars fail to adequately support identifier managment. We then show that XMG (eXtensible MetaGrammar) provides a s...
Claire Gardent, Yannick Parmentier
ACL
1998
14 years 11 months ago
Learning Optimal Dialogue Strategies: A Case Study of a Spoken Dialogue Agent for Email
This paper describes a novel method by which a dialogue agent can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy. While it is widely agreed that dialogue strategies should be formul...
Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne Frommer, Shrikanth Naray...
ACL
1997
14 years 11 months ago
Contrastive Accent in a Data-to-Speech System
Being able to predict the placement of contrastive accent is essential for the assignment of correct accentuation patterns in spoken language generation. I discuss two approaches ...
Mariët Theune