... only project in the world that applies (iii) not only as a matter of principle but as actual practice. We will regard a natural language as a set of texts. A translation pair is a pair of texts ... principle of simple transfer can now be formulated as follows: If A translates-as A& apos;, then we will call A& apos; a TN of A. We now call an element s,t of the set defined by translates-as ... elements in translates- as must be maximal. The generalised relation translates-as makes it possible to put some order into complex transfer. It localises it ina natural way, based on a tree...
... communication can take place anyway. Ina bus configuration, however, this is not alwaysthe case. For installations where the 'master' device is always in control and the slaves are 'dumb' ... simple and thus cheap, plus of course the fact that most PCs, which are used more andmore in automation systems today, have at least one PS232 (serial) interface as a standard.RS232, however, has ... protocols today also allow for the addressing of nodes, thus providing for networkcommu nicati on from a standard R5232 interface. The main advantage of this being cost as RS232interfaces are very...
... Naka-mura. 200 9a. Recent advances in wfst-based dialog system. In Proc. INTERSPEECH, pages 268–271.C. Hori, K. Ohtake, T. Misu, H. Kashioka, and S. Naka-mura. 2009b. Statistical dialog management appliedto ... andInformation EngineeringNational Cheng Kung UniversityTainan, Taiwan1liangnet@gmail.com2chunghsienwu@gmail.comChia-Ping ChenDepartment of Computer Scienceand EngineeringNational Sun ... finite state transducer basedstatistical dialog management. In Proc. ASRU.D. Jurafsky and J. H. Martin. 2009. Speech and Lan-guage Processing, 2nd Edition. Pearson Education.R. J. Larsen and M....
... dialogs. Each generated dialogd in each training/test set consisted of a sequence ofvalues for all the observed and unobserved variables:d = (S0, U0, A 0,˜ A 0, . . .).For a training/test ... UniversityPrinceton, NJ 08540, USAusyed@cs.princeton.eduJason D. WilliamsShannon LaboratoryAT&T Labs — ResearchFlorham Park, NJ 07932, USAjdw@research.att.comAbstractWe use an EM algorithm ... we cannot assume that the tran-scripts will accurately reflect the users’ true actionsand internal states. To handle this uncertainty, weemploy an EM algorithm that treats this informationas...
... and new information in formulating a paraphrase that differs ina meaningful way from the user's question. A description is also given of the transformational grammar used by the paraphraser ... used by the paraphraser to generate questions. I • INTRO~ION In a natural language interface to a database query system, a paraphraser can be used to ensure that the system has correctly understood ... question asked and not to a deviant version of it. The idea of using a paraphraser in the above way is not new. To date, other systems have used canned templates to form paraphrases, filling in...
... Sparck-Jones, K. and J.R. Galliers. 1995. Evalu- ating Natural Language Processing Systems. An Analysis and Review. Number 1083 in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag, ... Falkedal, Kirsten. 1991. Evaluation Methods for Machine Translation Systems. An historical overview and a critical account. ISSCO. Univer- sity of Geneva. Draft Report. Flanagan, Mary A. ... subject area is finances, otherwise it is translated as bench. No subject area lexicon was activated in our test runs. We concentrated on checking the general vocabulary. In addition Systran allows...
... papers are based on data for a typical Scandinavian kraft pulp mill of today.The papers are based on data from existing European pulp and paper mills as well as models depicting Scandinavian ... steam demand, and investing ina condensing turbine, as discussed by e.g. Vakkilainen (2008), Kankkonen v Analysing different technology pathways for the pulp and paper industry ina European ... characteristics and external, geographical and infrastructural, factors influence the potential for large-scale implementation of the pathways? In what way do these characteristics and factors influence...
... Rahul Saraf, Vijit Jain, Animesh Mukherjee, Sudeshna Sarkar, and Anupam Basu. 2007. Investigation and modeling of the structure of texting language. International Journal on Document Analysis ... Statistical Machine Translation. In Machine Translation Summit X (pp. 79{86). Phuket, Thailand. Franz Josef Och. 2003. Minimum error rate training for statistical machine translation. In ... short-forms are very irregular and hard to predict their standard forms using morphological and phonetic similarity. It is also hard to train a statistical model if training data is not available....
... case ofContinental Illinois Bank, the seventh largest bank in the U.S. when it failed in 1984, as pro-viding evidence against a significant role being playe d by inter-bank linkages in contagion.169.3 ... England, and that this information was rationallytaken into account by investors in their updating process.Finally, Schumacher (2000) examined the 1995 banking crisis in Argentina triggered bythe ... Herding Linked to Manager ial ReputationScharfstein and Stein (1990), Rajan (1994) modeled herding behavior based on managerialconcerns for reputation.17Scharfstein and Stein’s model involves...
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... uniform way. This facilitates dialog eval-uation, data mining and online learning becausedata is available for querying as soon as it hasbeen stored. There is no need for separate loggingmechanisms. ... exploration/exploitation trade-off in reinforcement learningThe RL-DM maintains a policy, an internal datastructure that keeps track of the values (accumu-lated rewards) of past state-action pairs. ... have developed anapproach to spoken dialogue systems thatincludes rule-based and trainable dialoguemanagers, spoken language understandingand generation modules, and a compre-hensive dialogue...
... Comput- ing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM. Yamanashi, Masa-aki. (1987). Metonymic interpretation and associative processes in natural language. In Language and ... that the main factors for treating metonymy correctly ina multil- ingual machine translation system are 1) its universality, which can be a guideline for the analysis component, 2) language ... acceptable translation. We think that these basic heuristics are a good starting point for more sophisti- cated approaches to translation ina multi- lingual environment. We intend as our next...
... Inference drawn from a user want referring to a state, missing his/her ac- quaintance with the associated causal relation (pursuing a global goal) - 32 - Dialog Control ina Natural Language ... Rule 2: Inference drawn from a user want referring to a state, given his/her ac- quaintance with the associated causal relation (pursuing a global goal) rain state (e.g., 'I want to have my ... assumptions that the accept- ance of the proposal is (implicitly) anti- cipated, and that modifications of a want or of a proposal are not manage- able. Ina more elaborated version, the goal accomplishment...
... in nature to a data manager which fails to freedata, but is easier to detect and prevent.• Data manager changes data. A malicious data manager may change the value of its data on each cacherefresh. ... userprograms through a message interface. This feature allows applications such as transaction management systems toparticipate in decisions regarding secondary storage management and page replacement.This ... more data than requested. The Mach kernel can only handle integralmultiples of the system page size in any one call and partial pages are discarded.Since the data manager may have external constraints...