We present a first step towards a model of speech generation for incremental dialogue systems. The model allows a dialogue system to incrementally interpret spoken input, while simultaneously planning, realising and selfmonitoring the system response. The model has been implemented in a general dialogue system framework. Using this framework, we have implemented a specific application and teste...

This paper gives a brief history of UTMK, a computer-aided translation unit, and reports on her projects and research co-operations. After its beginnings as a thesis project on Malay affixation, UTMK’s interest moved from machine translation to the development of tools for translation. Today, UTMK’s focus is on the development of natural language processing applications and tools (internet brow...

s of Current Literature The FINITE STRING Newsletter Abstracts of Current Literatures of Current Literature The following abstracts are from the papers selected for presentation at Coling84 the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics to be held 2-6 July 1984 at Stanford University, California. Procee...

This thesis describes a machine learning system for understanding appraisal in design documents. In linguistics, analysis of attitudes expressed in text is known as appraisal, which is the writer's subjective attitude (i.e., the opinion, sentiment or attitude expressed) toward the semantic meaning. Semantic orientation is the aspect of appraisal that expresses the positive or negative stance of...

We present a joint probabilistic model of who cites whom in computational linguistics, and also of the words they use to do the citing. The model reveals latent factions, or groups of individuals whom we expect to collaborate more closely within their faction, cite within the faction using language distinct from citation outside the faction, and be largely understandable through the language us...

This article is a survey of methods for measuring agreement among corpus annotators. It exposes the mathematics and underlying assumptions of agreement coefficients, covering Krippendorff’s alpha as well as Scott’s pi and Cohen’s kappa; discusses the use of coefficients in several annotation tasks; and argues that weighted, alpha-like coefficients, traditionally less used than kappa-like measur...

The thesis presents a way to apply process algebra to computational linguistics.1 We are interested in how contexts can a ect or contribute to language understanding and model the phenomena as a system of communicating processes to study the interaction between them in detail. For this purpose, we turn to the -calculus and investigate how communicating processes may be de ned. While investigati...

This paper argues that computational cognitive psychology and computational linguistics have much to offer the science of language by adopting the research strategy that Donald Stokes called Pasteur’s quadrant--starting and testing success with important real world problems--and that education offers an ideal venue. Some putative examples from applications of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) are ...