This paper describes a system that leads us to believe in the feasibility of constructing natural spoken dialogue systems in task-oriented domains. It specifically addresses the i...
James F. Allen, Bradford W. Miller, Eric K. Ringge...
\Prose rhythm" is a widely observed but scarcely quanti ed phenomenon. We describe an information-theoretic model for measuring the regularity of lexical stress in English te...
Information retrieval is an important application area of natural-language processing where one encounters the genuine challenge of processing large quantities of unrestricted nat...
Semantic feedback is an important source of information that a parser could use to deal with local ambiguities in syntax. However, it is difficult to devise a systematic communica...
In this paper, we propose a textual clue approach to help metaphor detection, in order to improve the semantic processing of this figure. The previous works in the domain studied ...