There is a growing need for creating life-like virtual human simulations that can conduct a natural spoken dialog with a human student on a predefined subject. We present an over...
Anton Leuski, Jarrell Pair, David R. Traum, Peter ...
The ability to determine what day-to-day activity (such as cooking pasta, taking a pill, or watching a video) a person is performing is of interest in many application domains. A ...
Mike Perkowitz, Matthai Philipose, Kenneth P. Fish...
The invited talk will introduce Computer-Aided Language Processing (CALP) as an emerging area of practical interest and significance and will present experiments of several CALP a...
We have designed, implemented and evaluated an end-to-end system spellchecking and autocorrection system that does not require any manually annotated training data. The World Wide...
Casey Whitelaw, Ben Hutchinson, Grace Chung, Ged E...
The use of figurative language is ubiquitous in natural language texts and it is a serious bottleneck in automatic text understanding. We address the problem of interpretation of ...