Training statistical models to detect nonnative sentences requires a large corpus of non-native writing samples, which is often not readily available. This paper examines the exte...
This paper explores what kind of user simulation model is suitable for developing a training corpus for using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) to automatically learn dialog strate...
A new architecture for identifying and interpreting temporal expressions is introduced, in which the large set of complex hand-crafted rules standard in systems for this task is r...
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...
We compare the effect of joint modeling of phonological features to independent feature detectors in a Conditional Random Fields framework. Joint modeling of features is achieved ...
Ilana Bromberg, Jeremy Morris, Eric Fosler-Lussier