In this paper, we compare the performance of a state-of-the-art statistical parser (Bikel, 2004) in parsing written and spoken language and in generating subcategorization cues fr...
This paper introduces a class of statistical mechanisms, called hidden understanding models, for natural language processing. Much of the framework for hidden understanding models...
Scott Miller, Richard M. Schwartz, Robert J. Bobro...
To understand a speaker’s turn of a conversation, one needs to segment it into intonational phrases, clean up any speech repairs that might have occurred, and identify discourse...
Psycholinguistic studies suggest a model of human language processing that 1) performs incremental interpretation of spoken utterances or written text, 2) preserves ambiguity by m...
William Schuler, Samir AbdelRahman, Tim Miller, La...
Statistical Spoken LanguageUnderstandinggrammars (SSLUs) are often used only at the top recognition contexts of modern large-scale spoken dialog systems. We propose to use SSLUs a...
David Suendermann, Keelan Evanini, Jackson Liscomb...