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Generating Canonical Example Sentences using Candidate Words

Situations where a spoken dialogue system cannot interpret a user’s utterance are a major source of frustration in humancomputer spoken dialogue. Current spoken dialogue systems generally respond with an unhelpful “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand,” or something similarly uninformative. Recent work on Targeted Help has shown that giving users more appropriate feedback makes systems easier to lear...

The information conveyed by words in sentences.

A method is presented for calculating the amount of information conveyed to a hearer by a speaker emitting a sentence generated by a probabilistic grammar known to both parties. The method applies the work of Grenander (1967) to the intermediate states of a top-down parser. This allows the uncertainty about structural ambiguity to be calculated at each point in a sentence. Subtracting these val...

Pictures in sentences: understanding without words.

To understand a sentence, the meanings of the words in the sentence must be retrieved and combined. Are these meanings represented within the language system (the lexical hypothesis) or are they represented in a general conceptual system that is not restricted to language (the conceptual hypothesis)? To evaluate these hypotheses, sentences were presented in which a pictured object replaced a wo...