A model for reference use in communication is proposed, from a representationist point of view. Both the sender and the receiver of a message handle representations of their commo...
Gesture is a non-verbal modality that can contribute crucial information to the understanding of natural language. But not all gestures are informative, and non-communicative hand...
We present a coreference resolver called BABAR that uses contextual role knowledge to evaluate possible antecedents for an anaphor. BABAR uses information extraction patterns to i...
We investigate the effect of encoding additional semantic and syntactic information sources in a classification-based machine learning approach to the task of coreference resolutio...
In this paper, we describe an exploratory study to develop a model of visual attention that could aid automatic interpretation of exophors in situated dialog. The model is intended...
Donna K. Byron, Thomas Mampilly, Vinay Sharma, Tia...