Statistical language models play a major role in current speech recognition systems. Most of these models have focussed on relatively local interactions between words. Recently, h...
In this paper we sketch a decidable inference-based procedure for lexical disambiguation which operates on semantic representations of discourse and conceptual knowledge, In contr...
In this paper we describe a new approach for learning dialog act processing. In this approach we integrate a symbolic semantic segmentation parse,: with a learning dialog act netw...
Heckerman (1993) defined causal independence in terms of a set of temporal conditional independence statements. These statements formalized certain types of causal interaction whe...
In this paper we present SINTESI, a system for the knowledge extraction from Italian inputs, currently under development in our re,search centre. It is used on short descriptive d...