Thinking outside the box for natural language processing

  • Authors:
  • Srinivas Bangalore

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs---Research, Florham Park, NJ

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Natural Language Processing systems are often composed of a sequence of transductive components that transform their input into an output with additional syntactic and/or semantic labels. However, each component in this chain is typically error-prone and the error is magnified as the processing proceeds down the chain. In this paper, we present details of two systems, first, a speech driven question answering system and second, a dialog modeling system, both of which reflect the theme of tightly incorporating constraints across multiple components to improve the accuracy of their tasks.