The CALO Meeting Assistant is a multimodal meeting assistant technology that integrates speech, gestures, and multimodal data collected from multiparty interactions during meetings...
We present tutorial dialogue systems in two different domains that demonstrate the use of dialogue management and deep natural language processing techniques. Generation technique...
Myroslava Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Elaine F...
This paper describes a novel text comparison environment that facilities text comparison administered through assessing and aggregating information nuggets automatically created a...
The goals of my dissertation are: 1) to propose a French terminology for the presentation of evaluation results of automatic summaries, 2) to identify and describe experimental va...
The goal of my dissertation research is to investigate the combination of new evidence sources for improving information retrieval on speech collections. The utility of these evid...
An increasing number of NLP tasks require semantic labels to be assigned, not only to entities that appear in textual elements, but to the relationships between those entities. In...
Previous work on discourse parsing has mostly relied on surface syntactic and lexical features; the use of semantics is limited to shallow semantics. The goal of this thesis is to...
Interests to realize semantic frames databases as a stable starting point in developing semantic knowledge based systems exists in countries such as Germany (the Salsa project), E...
In the past, NLP has always been based on the explicit or implicit use of linguistic knowledge. In classical computer linguistic applications explicit rule based approaches prevai...
Most dialogue systems are built with a single task in mind. This makes the extension of an existing system one of the major problems in the field as large parts of the system hav...