Learning a tree substitution grammar is very challenging due to derivational ambiguity. Our recent approach used a Bayesian non-parametric model to induce good derivations from tr...
Bag-of-words approaches to information retrieval (IR) are effective but assume independence between words. The Hyperspace Analogue to Language (HAL) is a cognitively motivated and...
In a Wizard-of-Oz experiment with multiple wizard subjects, each wizard viewed automated speech recognition (ASR) results for utterances whose interpretation is critical to task s...
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Susan L. Epstein, Tiziana L...
We present three approaches for unsupervised grammar induction that are sensitive to data complexity and apply them to Klein and Manning's Dependency Model with Valence. The ...
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jura...
Opinion Question Answering (Opinion QA), which aims to find the authors' sentimental opinions on a specific target, is more challenging than traditional factbased question an...