This study is motivated by the increased need to understand human response to video-links, 3G telephony and avatars. We focus on response of participants to audiovisual presentati...
Today's natural language processing systems are growing more complex with the need to incorporate a wider range of language resources and more sophisticated statistical metho...
As a computational model of natural language communication, Database Semantics1 (DBS) includes a hearer mode and a speaker mode. For the content to be mapped into language expressi...
In this paper, we present an approach which, given a knowledge base and an appropriate text corpus, automatically induces patterns which can be used to query the knowledge base. W...
We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...