Two Stage Method

This paper describes research on automatic as- sessment of the pronunciation quality of spon- taneous non-native adult speech. Since the speaking content is not known prior to the assessment, a …...

In this paper we propose a two-stage method to acquire contradiction relations between typed lexico-syntactic patterns such as Xdrug prevents Ydisease and Ydisease caused by Xdrug. In the first stage, …...

Many NLP systems use dependency parsers as critical components. Jonit learn- ing parsers usually achieve better parsing accuracies than two-stage methods. How- ever, classical joint parsing algorithms significantly increase computational …...

AbstractIdentifying the unknown (novel) user intents that have never appeared in the training set is a challenging task in the dialogue system. In this paper, we present a two-stage method …...

AbstractOpen-ended text generation tasks, such as dialogue generation and story completion, require models to generate a coherent continuation given limited preceding context. The open-ended nature of these tasks brings new …...