Speech dialog systems need to deal with various kinds of ill-formed speech inputs that appear in natural human-human dialog. Self-correction (or speech-repair) is a particularly p...
Spoken queries are a natural medium for searching the Web in settings where typing on a keyboard is not practical. This paper describes a speech interface to the Google search eng...
While Named Entity extraction is useful in many natural language applications, the coarse categories that most NE extractors work with prove insufficient for complex applications ...
We present in this paper a method for achieving in an integrated way two tasks of topic analysis: segmentation and link detection. This method combines word repetition and the lex...
A number of machine translation systems based on the learning algorithms are presented. These methods acquire translation rules from pairs of similar sentences in a bilingual text...
We present a principled approach to the problem of connecting a controlled document authoring system with a knowledge base. We start by describingclosed-world authoring situations...
In this paper, we present a rich semantic network based on a differential analysis. We then detail implemented measures that take into account common and differential features bet...
A standard architecture for an NLG system has been defined in (Reiter and Dale, 2000). Their work describes the modularization of an NLG system and the tasks of each module. Howev...