[PDF][PDF] Building interactive virtual humans for training environments

P Kenny, A Hartholt, J Gratch, W Swartout… - Proceedings of i …, 2007‏ - researchgate.net
There is a great need in the Joint Forces to have human to human interpersonal training for
skills such as negotiation, leadership, interviewing and cultural training. Virtual …

Virtual patients for clinical therapist skills training

P Kenny, TD Parsons, J Gratch, A Leuski… - Intelligent Virtual Agents …, 2007‏ - Springer
Virtual humans offer an exciting and powerful potential for rich interactive experiences. Fully
embodied virtual humans are growing in capability, ease, and utility. As a result, they …

Topic specific language models built from large numbers of documents

A Sethy, P Georgiou, S Narayanan - US Patent 7,739,286, 2010‏ - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Natural language processing (NLP) systems, such as speech recognition,
machine translation, or other text to text applications, typically rely on language models to …

[PDF][PDF] Building effective question answering characters

A Leuski, R Patel, D Traum… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2006‏ - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we describe methods for building and evaluation of limited domain question-
answering characters. Several classification techniques are tested, including text …

System and method for evaluating results of a search query in a network environment

SK Gannu, SM Sambhus, Y Tao, KA Durazzo… - US Patent …, 2014‏ - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method is provided in one example and includes receiving results for a
search query initiated by a user; evaluating the results in relation to a personal profile of the …

Generating topic-specific language models

DF Houghton, SM Murray, SV Simon - US Patent 9,892,730, 2018‏ - Google Patents
US9892730B2 - Generating topic-specific language models - Google Patents
US9892730B2 - Generating topic-specific language models - Google Patents Generating …

System and method for providing augmented data in a network environment

SK Gannu, LA Frazier, DR Moretti - US Patent 8,553,065, 2013‏ - Google Patents
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7,809,714 7,818,215 7,827,191 7,853,553 7,913, 176 8,015,250 8,051.204 8,214,209 …

Improving speech recognition and keyword search for low resource languages using web data

G Mendels, E Cooper, V Soto… - … 2015: 16th Annual …, 2015‏ - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
We describe the use of text data scraped from the web to augment language models for
Automatic Speech Recognition and Keyword Search for Low Resource Languages. We …

[کتاب][B] Natural Language Processing Tools for Reading Level Assessment and Text Simplication for Bilingual Education

SE Petersen, M Ostendorf - 2007‏ - Citeseer
Reading proficiency is a fundamental component of language competency. However,
finding topical texts at an appropriate level for foreign and second language learners is a …

Web resources for language modeling in conversational speech recognition

I Bulyko, M Ostendorf, M Siu, T Ng, A Stolcke… - ACM Transactions on …, 2007‏ - dl.acm.org
This article describes a methodology for collecting text from the Web to match a target
sublanguage both in style (register) and topic. Unlike other work that estimates n-gram …