In the context of deployed spoken dialogue telecom services, we introduce a preprocessor called Fiction into the Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) component. It acts as an inter...
Five science teachers were observed during two selfstudy sessions where they learned to use Visual AgenTalk (VAT). In the first session they learned basic skills; in the second, t...
The development of natural language processing (NLP) systems that perform machine translation (MT) and information retrieval (IR) has highlighted the need for the automatic recogn...
This article investigates the use of Transformation-Based Error-Driven learning for resolving part-of-speech ambiguity in the Greek language. The aim is not only to study the perf...
Baldi, a computer-animated talking head is introduced. The quality of his visible speech has been repeatedly modified and evaluated to accurately simulate naturally talking humans...