We describe work done at three sites on designing conversational agents capable of incremental processing. We focus on the `middleware' layer in these systems, which takes ca...
David Schlangen, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier,...
Prior approaches to sentence compression have taken low level syntactic constraints into account in order to maintain grammaticality. We propose and successfully evaluate a more c...
Sourish Chaudhuri, Naman K. Gupta, Noah A. Smith, ...
Combining word alignments trained in two translation directions has mostly relied on heuristics that are not directly motivated by intended applications. We propose a novel method...
Mailing list repositories contain valuable information about the history of a project. Research is starting to mine this information to support developers and maintainers of longl...
Dynamic service composition is suitable for on-demand business requests. For autonomic computing, service composition needs to deal with runtime environment faults, but also with ...