— This paper deals with automatic dialogue acts (DAs) recognition in Czech. Dialogue acts are sentence-level labels that represent different states of a dialogue, such as questio...
This paper examines tagging models for spontaneous English speech transcripts. We analyze the performance of state-of-the-art tagging models, either generative or discriminative, ...
Vladimir Eidelman, Zhongqiang Huang, Mary P. Harpe...
Linguists seek to understand the semantics of expressions in human languages. Taking a computational point of view, there are many natural language expressions--operators in the w...
We examine the expressive power of probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs), with a special focus on the use of probabilities as a mechanism for reducing ambiguity by filtering ...
The research described here is part of a larger project with the objective of determining if a writer believes a proposition to be true or false. This task requires a deep underst...