... Targeted Help for Spoken Dialogue Systems: intelligent feedback improves naive users' performance Beth Ann Hockey Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), NASA ... ex- periments on a spoken dialogue system for command and control of a simulated robotic helicopter. 1 Introduction Targeted Help makes use of user utterances that are out-of-coverage of the main...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20
... Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Vera Demberg Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) University of Stuttgart D-70174 ... lead to a more informed choice and de- crease the risk that the user does not find the opti- mal option. 4 Implementation Our approach was implemented within a spoken dialogue system for flight booking. ... relevant criteria for later...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Transductive learning for statistical machine translation" potx
... over all possible valid translations t for a particular input sentence s. We can initialize this probability distribution to the uniform distribu- tion for each sentence s in the unlabeled data ... Algorithm 1 we run it for a fixed number of iterations and instead focus on finding useful def- initions for Estimate, Score and Select that can be experimentally shown to improve MT performa...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Pronunciation Modeling for Improved Spelling Correction" potx
... presents a method for incor- porating word pronunciation information in a noisy channel model for spelling cor- rection. The proposed method builds an explicit error model for word pronuncia- tions. ... correspond to nothing (i.e., are silent). For example, the entry in NETtalk (when we remove the empties, which contain information for phone level alignment) for the word able is A...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Extractive Summaries for Educational Science Content" potx
... basis for the construction of knowledge maps useful both as computational knowledge representations and as learning re- sources for presentation to the student. 2 Related Work Our work is informed ... of very fine granularity and therefore graphs that may not be suitable for presentation to a student. Multi-document summarization (MDS) re- search also informs our work. XDoX analy...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Topic Analysis for Psychiatric Document Retrieval" potx
... to different suggestions decided by experts. Therefore, an ideal retrieval system for consultation documents should consider such topic information so as to improve the retrieval precision. ... extraction of topic informa- tion is described briefly. The detailed process is described in (Wu et al. 2005a) for symptom and relation identification, and in (Yu et al., 2007) for event id...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Discourse Cues for Broadcast News Segmentation" potx
... Figure 1) or MS-NBC. For example, the structure for the Jim Lehrer News Hour provides not only segmentation information but also content information for each segment. Thus, the order of stories ... content-based information browsing, retrieval, extraction, and summarization to ensure their value for tasks such as real-time profiling and retrospective search. Whereas image proc...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "PROSPECTS OR PRACTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS" potx
... data base query system, one of the suggested topics for this panel is of particular interest to me. The issue of what hurdles remain before NL systems become practical strikes particulary ... current NL technology if we set our sights appropriately and are willing to take the additional effort to craft systems actually worthy of being used. The missing link isn't a utopian par...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "FINITE STATE PROCESSING OF TONE SYSTEMS" potx
... ear- lier by 't Hart and others for DutcL intonation. These existing FS intonation descriptions are straightforward finite state automata (FSAs; for Dutch, probabilistic FSAs). The problem ... has not been formulated in finite state terms for this domain. This mapping question is a different one from the question of recognition, and the finite state devices required for an...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Co-training for Predicting Emotions with Spoken Dialogue Data" pdf
... performance end end average_performance and keep average_performance end B = best average_performance bestFeatures B ∪ bestFeatures end Figure 2. Implemented algorithm for forward ... system’s predictions. Therefore, we are looking for a less labour-intensive approach to data annotation. 2 Data Our data consists of the student turns in a set of 10 spoken dialogu...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20