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COLING
1992
13 years 8 months ago
Processing Complex Noun Phrases In A Natural Language Interface To A Statistical Database
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...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Sentence simplification for spoken language understanding
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) ...
Gökhan Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larr...
COLING
2002
13 years 7 months ago
Towards Automatic Generation of Natural Language Generation Systems
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...
IBPRIA
2003
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Smoothing Techniques for Tree-k-Grammar-Based Natural Language Modeling
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...
Jose L. Verdú-Mas, Jorge Calera-Rubio, Rafa...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Programmatic semantics for natural language interfaces
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...
Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman