It has always been difficult for language understanding systems to handle spontaneous speech with satisfactory robustness, primarily due to such problems as the fragments, disflue...
Bor-shen Lin, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Lin-Shan...
Grid search and manual search are the most widely used strategies for hyper-parameter optimization. This paper shows empirically and theoretically that randomly chosen trials are ...
Abstract. We present a software tool, called EasySyn++, for the automatic synthesis of the source code for a set of stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms. EasySyn++ uses C++ as ...
This paper introduces a novel corpus of natural language dialogues obtained from humans performing a cooperative, remote, search task (CReST) as it occurs naturally in a variety o...
Kathleen M. Eberhard, Hannele Nicholson, Sandra K&...
This work is concerned with the space of alignments searched by word alignment systems. We focus on situations where word re-ordering is limited by syntax. We present two new alig...