I show how a conversational process that takes simple, intuitively meaningful steps may be understood as a sophisticated computation that derives the richly detailed, complex repr...
Topological Dependency Grammar (TDG) is a lexicalized dependency grammar formalism, able to model languages with a relatively free word order. In such languages, word order variat...
In many real-world domains, undirected graphical models such as Markov random fields provide a more natural representation of the dependency structure than directed graphical mode...
Sushmita Roy, Terran Lane, Margaret Werner-Washbur...
The HATS project develops a formal method for the design, analysis, and implementation of highly adaptable software systems that are at the same time characterized by a high demand...
Abstract--This paper is concerned with the automatic recognition of dialogue acts (DAs) in multiparty conversational speech. We present a joint generative model for DA recognition ...