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Building a robust dialogue system with limited data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
We describe robustness techniques used in the CommandTalk system at the recognition level, the parsing level, and th dia6ue level, and how these were influenced by the lack of domain data.
Bratt, Elizabeth Owen   +3 more
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Literacy, discourse and functional grammar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Este ensaio visa a oferecer uma proposta de teorização na interface entre letramento, discurso e gramática funcional, selecionando a Teoria Social do Letramento (Barton e Hamilton, 1998; 2000), nos Novos Estudos do Letramento, a Análise de Discurso ...
Rios, Guilherme Veiga
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Exploiting Deep Semantics and Compositionality of Natural Language for Human-Robot-Interaction

open access: yes, 2016
We develop a natural language interface for human robot interaction that implements reasoning about deep semantics in natural language. To realize the required deep analysis, we employ methods from cognitive linguistics, namely the modular and ...
Eppe, Manfred   +2 more
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Natural Language Dialogue Service for Appointment Scheduling Agents [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task.
Busemann, Stephan   +5 more
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Without 'Focus'

open access: yesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
It is widely accepted that a notion of 'focus', more or less as conceived of in Jackendoff (1972), must be incorporated into our theory of grammar, as a means of accounting for certain observed correlations between prosodic facts and semantic/pragmatic ...
Aldo Sevi, Nirit Kadmon
doaj   +1 more source

Clause-combining at the grammar-discourse interface in French

open access: yes, 2023
This paper examines how clause-combining at the grammatical level maps onto relation types between units established at the discourse level. It focuses on adverbial subordination in French, with the aim to compare the interaction between syntactic integration and discursive dependence.
Van Praet, Wout   +2 more
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Is Alzheimer’s Disease a Cross-Linguistic Issue? Comparing Corpora from a Role and Reference Grammar Perspective

open access: yesCírculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación
Taking Role and Reference Grammar  (Van Valin y LaPolla, 1997; Van Valin, 2005) as theoretical framework, we aim to compare three corpora of patients with Alzheimer’s disease: two in Spanish — PerLA (Pérez Mantero, 2014) and Peraita & Grasso (2010 ...
Alejandro Suárez Rodríguez
doaj   +1 more source

The Functional Grammar of Dance applied to ELAN annotation: meaning beyond the naked eye

open access: yesJournal of World Languages
The main purpose of this article is to show how Functional Grammar of Dance (FGD) can be applied to dance discourse analysis to reveal the discursive strategies that underlie choreographies and support movement-based communication.
Maiorani Arianna, Liu Chun
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Quantification and Negation in Event Semantics

open access: yesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
Recently, it has been claimed that event semantics does not go well together with quantification, especially if one rejects syntactic, LF-based approaches to quantifier scope.
Lucas Champollion
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Prosody as an argument for a layered left periphery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Van Heuven and Haan’s (2000, 2002) experimental work on the prosody of Dutch question types found that the prosodic signalling of interrogativity is stronger for declarative questions, less so for yes/no-questions and even less so for wh-questions.
De Clercq, Karen
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