Since sentences are the basic propositional units of text, knowing their themes should help various tasks requiring the knowledge about the semantic content of text. In this paper,...
The aim of the work described in this paper is to extend the EPFL dialogue platform with multimodal capabilities. Based on our experience with the EPFL Rapid Dialogue Prototyping M...
Malapropisms are real-word errors that lead to syntactically correct but semantically implausible text. We report an experiment on detection and correction of Spanish malapropisms....
Although speech, derived from reading texts, and similar types of speech, e.g. that from reading newspapers or that from news broadcast, can be recognized with high accuracy, recog...
As language is fundamental to human activities, proficiency in other languages becomes important. Besides for developing abilities for communication, the knowledge is also a tool f...
Human listeners use lexical stress for word segmentation and disambiguation. We look into using lexical stress for speech recognition by examining a Dutch-language corpus. We propo...
Cluster analysis of dialogs with transport directory service allows revealing the typical scenarios of dialogs, which is useful for designing automatic dialog systems. We show how ...
Mikhail Alexandrov, Emilio Sanchis Arnal, Paolo Ro...