The focus of this study is positive feedback in one-on-one tutoring, its computational modeling, and its application to the design of more effective Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ...
Conventional n-best reranking techniques often suffer from the limited scope of the nbest list, which rules out many potentially good alternatives. We instead propose forest reran...
This paper presents a system capable of automatically acquiring subcategorization frames (SCFs) for French verbs from the analysis of large corpora. We applied the system to a lar...
Grounded language models represent the relationship between words and the non-linguistic context in which they are said. This paper describes how they are learned from large corpo...
We use an EM algorithm to learn user models in a spoken dialog system. Our method requires automatically transcribed (with ASR) dialog corpora, plus a model of transcription error...