Analysisof a corpus of queries to a statistical database has shown considerable variation in the location and order of modifiers in complex noun phrases. Nevertheless, restriction...
Fred Popowich, Paul McFetridge, Dan Fass, Gary Hal...
In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
Systems that interact with the user via natural language are in their infancy. As these systems mature and become more complex, it would be desirable for a system developer if the...
John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow, Marily...
Abstract. In a previous work, a new probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG) model for natural language parsing derived from a tree bank corpus has been introduced. The model esti...
An important way of making interfaces usable by nonexpert users is to enable the use of natural language input, as in natural language query interfaces to databases, or MUDs and M...