In this paper, we propose a novel Cooperative Model for natural language understanding in a dialogue system. We build this based on both Finite State Model (FSM) and Statistical L...
We describe Talk'n'Travel, a spoken dialogue language system for making air travel plans over the telephone. Talk'n'Travel is a fully conversational, mixed-ini...
Results presented in this paper strongly support the notion that similarities as well as differences in language systems can be empirically investigated by looking into the lingui...
In this paper, we discuss some formal properties of the model of bidirectional Optimality Theory that was developed in Blutner 2000. We investigate the conditions under which bidi...
Feedback with carry shift registers (FCSRs) are a class of finite state devices that are similar to linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs) in their simplicity and statistical ran...