The supremacy of n-gram models in statistical language modelling has recently been challenged by parametric models that use distributed representations to counteract the difficult...
In this paper, we present an empirical study of using a new and cost-effective Web-based collaboration software, Wiki, in a freshman-level English as a second language (ESL) cours...
Abstract. Non-verbal communication, or “body language”, is a critical component in constructing believable virtual characters. Most often, body language is implemented by a set...
To investigate whether Natural Language feedback improves learning, we developed two different feedback generation engines, that we systematically evaluated in a three way comparis...
Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, Dan Yu, Susan ...
Semantic entailment is the problem of determining if the meaning of a given sentence entails that of another. This is a fundamental problem in natural language understanding that ...
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Roxana Girju, Vasin Punyaka...