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Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding Using Markov Logic Networks
Computer Speech & Language (2014)
  • Casey Kennington, Universität Bielefeld
  • David Schlangen, Universität Bielefeld
Abstract
We present work on understanding natural language in a situated domain in an incremental, word-by-word fashion. We explore a set of models specified as Markov Logic Networks and show that a model that has access to information about the visual context during an utterance, its discourse context, the words of the utterance, as well as the linguistic structure of the utterance performs best and is robust to noisy speech input. We explore the incremental properties of the models and offer some analysis. We conclude that MLN<small>S</small> provide a promising framework for specifying such models in a general, possibly domain-independent way.
Keywords
  • incremental,
  • situated,
  • natural language understanding,
  • dialog systems,
  • Markov Logic Networks
Disciplines
Publication Date
January, 2014
DOI
10.1016/j.csl.2013.06.004
Citation Information
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen. "Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding Using Markov Logic Networks" Computer Speech & Language Vol. 28 Iss. 1 (2014) p. 240 - 255 ISSN: 08852308
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/casey-kennington/1/