Speech dialog systems need to deal with various kinds of ill-formed speech inputs that appear in natural human-human dialog. Self-correction (or speech-repair) is a particularly p...
Ambiguity is the fundamental property of natural language. Perhaps, the most burdensome case of ambiguity manifests itself on the syntactic level of analysis. In order to face up ...
In order to answer factoid questions, the Webclopedia QA system employs a range of knowledge resources. These include a QA Typology with answer patterns, WordNet, information abou...
Eduard H. Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, Chin-Yew Lin, Deepa...
This paper presents the strategy and design of a highly efficient semiautomatic method for labelling the semantic features of common nouns, using semantic relationships between wo...
This paper proposes a method of fertilizing a Japanese case frame dictionary to handle complicated expressions: double nominative sentences, non-gapping relation of relative claus...