Abstract. In this paper, we present a game theoretic account of a subclass of ‘relevance’ implicatures arising from irrelevant answers. We show that these phenomena can be expl...
This paper proposes a method for dealing with repairs in action control dialogue to resolve participants' misunderstanding. The proposed method identifies the repair target b...
Most state-of-the-art evaluation measures for machine translation assign high costs to movements of word blocks. In many cases though such movements still result in correct or alm...
We employ statistical methods to analyze, generate, and translate rhythmic poetry. We first apply unsupervised learning to reveal word-stress patterns in a corpus of raw poetry. W...
We propose a novel unsupervised approach for distinguishing literal and non-literal use of idiomatic expressions. Our model combines an unsupervised and a supervised classifier. T...