In conversation,a person sometimeshasto refer to anobjectthat is not previously known to the other participant. We present a planbased model of how agents collaborate on reference...
We propose a bottom-up variant of Earley deduction. Bottom-up deduction is preferable to top-down deduction because it allows incrementai processing (even for head-driven grammars...
We present a hybrid text understanding methodology for the resolution of textual ellipsis. It integrates language-independent conceptual criteria and language-dependent functional...
A multimodal user interface allows users to communicate with computers using multiple modalities, such as a mouse, a keyboard or voice, in various combined ways. This paper discus...
Finding useful phrases is important in applications like information retriewd, and text-tospeech systems. One of the currently most used statistics is the mutual information ratio...