This paper describes a new grapheme-tophoneme framework, based on a combination of formal linguistic and statistical methods. A context-free grammar is used to parse words into th...
We discuss Feature Latent Semantic Analysis (FLSA), an extension to Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). LSA is a statistical method that is ordinarily trained on words only; FLSA adds...
In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...
This paper describes an approach for computing a consensus translation from the outputs of multiple machine translation (MT) systems. The consensus translation is computed by weigh...
Evgeny Matusov, Gregor Leusch, Rafael E. Banchs, N...
In this paper we build user simulations of older and younger adults using a corpus of interactions with a Wizard-of-Oz appointment scheduling system. We measure the quality of the...
Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Johanna D. Moor...