Speakers in dialogue tend to adapt to each other by starting to use similar lexical items, syntactic structures, or gestures. This behaviour, called alignment, may serve important...
This paper presents recent work using the Chill parser acquisition system to automate the construction of a natural-language interface for database queries. Chill treats parser ac...
The Tutoring Research Group at the University of Memphis is developing an intelligent tutoring system which takes advantages of recent technological advances in the areas of semant...
Peter M. Wiemer-Hastings, Arthur C. Graesser, Dere...
In this article we present Supervised Semantic Indexing (SSI) which defines a class of nonlinear (quadratic) models that are discriminatively trained to directly map from the word...
Bing Bai, Jason Weston, David Grangier, Ronan Coll...
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...