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Graph-Community Detection for Cross-Document Topic Segment Relationship Identification
Pedro Mota, Maxine Eskenazi, Luisa Coheur
In this paper we propose a graph-community detection approach to identify cross-document relationships at the topic segment level. Given a set of related documents, we automaticall…
DialPort: Connecting the Spoken Dialog Research Community to Real User Data
Tiancheng Zhao, Kyusong Lee, Maxine Eskenazi
This paper describes a new spoken dialog portal that connects systems produced by the spoken dialog academic research community and gives them access to real users. We introduce a…
Predicting the Relative Difficulty of Single Sentences With and Without Surrounding Context
Elliot Schumacher, Maxine Eskenazi, Gwen Frishkoff +1
The problem of accurately predicting relative reading difficulty across a set of sentences arises in a number of important natural language applications, such as finding and curati…
Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Eskenazi
This paper presents an end-to-end framework for task-oriented dialog systems using a variant of Deep Recurrent Q-Networks (DRQN). The model is able to interface with a relational d…
A Readability Analysis of Campaign Speeches from the 2016 US Presidential Campaign
Elliot Schumacher, Maxine Eskenazi
Readability is defined as the reading level of the speech from grade 1 to grade 12. It results from the use of the REAP readability analysis (vocabulary - Collins-Thompson and Call…