In this work we present two extensions to the well-known dynamic programming beam search in phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT), aiming at increased efficiency of ...
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) addresses the problem of extracting semantic meaning conveyed in an utterance. The traditional knowledge-based approach to this problem is very...
We present a natural language interface system which is based entirely on trained statistical models. The system consists of three stages of processing: parsing, semantic interpre...
Scott Miller, David Stallard, Robert J. Bobrow, Ri...
Several recent efforts in statistical natural language understanding (NLU) have focused on generating clumps of English words from semantic meaning concepts (Miller et al., 1995; ...
Stephen Della Pietra, Mark Epstein, Salim Roukos, ...
Incremental natural language understanding is the task of assigning semantic representations to successively larger prefixes of utterances. We compare two types of statistical mod...