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...
The paper argues that language change can be explained through the stochasticity observed in real-world natural language use. This thesis is demonstrated by modeling language use ...
Abstract— An ontology is a formal language adequately representing the knowledge used for reasoning in a specific environment. When contradictions arise and make ontologies inad...
There is increasing interest within the research community in the design and use of recursive probability models. There remains concern about computational complexity costs and th...
Probability distributions are useful for expressing the meanings of probabilistic languages, which support formal modeling of and reasoning about uncertainty. Probability distribu...