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5 papers
Actionable Conversational Quality Indicators for Improving Task-Oriented Dialog Systems
Michael Higgins, Dominic Widdows, Chris Brew +9
Automatic dialog systems have become a mainstream part of online customer service. Many such systems are built, maintained, and improved by customer service specialists, rather tha…
Language Identification with a Reciprocal Rank Classifier
Dominic Widdows, Chris Brew
Language identification is a critical component of language processing pipelines (Jauhiainen et al.,2019) and is not a solved problem in real-world settings. We present a lightweig…
Is getting the right answer just about choosing the right words? The role of syntactically-informed features in short answer scoring
Derrick Higgins, Chris Brew, Michael Heilman +10
Developments in the educational landscape have spurred greater interest in the problem of automatically scoring short answer questions. A recent shared task on this topic revealed…
Stochastic HPSG
Chris Brew
In this paper we provide a probabilistic interpretation for typed feature structures very similar to those used by Pollard and Sag. We begin with a version of the interpretation wh…
Priority Union and Generalization in Discourse Grammars
Claire Grover, Chris Brew, Suresh Manandhar +1
We describe an implementation in Carpenter's typed feature formalism, ALE, of a discourse grammar of the kind proposed by Scha, Polanyi, et al. We examine their method for resolvin…