Abstract--Until quite recently, extending Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (PBSMT) with syntactic knowledge caused system performance to deteriorate. The most recent su...
Genetic Algorithms provide computational procedures that are modeled on natural genetic system mechanics, whereby a coded solution is “evolved” from a set of potential solutio...
Many state-of-the-art statistical parsers for English can be viewed as Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (PCFGs) acquired from treebanks consisting of phrase-structure trees enri...
Recent work in behavioral animation has taken impressive steps towards a virtual human. As for intelligent virtual agents, abbreviated "IVAs", the behaviors displayed in ...
Classification of texts potentially containing a complex and specific terminology requires the use of learning methods that do not rely on extensive feature engineering. In this w...