In our paper we describe the structure and implementation of a semi-automatic evaluation environment for natural language processing in speech understanding systems. The major goal of this evaluation framework is to support the construction of linguistic processors and their accompanying linguistic knowledge bases (grammars) in order to reduce development costs and raise quality. Our evaluation...

Novel labels provide feedback that may enhance categorical alignment between interlocutors. However, the nature of this feedback may not always be linguistic. Lupyan (2008) has demonstrated the effects of labels on individual categorization, and even non-word labels have seemingly produced greater consistency in sorting strategies (Lupyan & Casasanto, 2014). We extend this to alignment by demon...

This paper introduces a formal view of the semantics and pragmatics of corrective feedback in dialogues between adults and children. The goal of this research is to give a formal account of language coordination in dialogue, and semantic coordination in particular. Accounting for semantic coordination requires (1) a semantics, i.e. an architecture allowing for dynamic meanings and meaning updat...

This paper introduces a formal view of the semantics and pragmatics of corrective feedback in dialogues between adults and children. The goal of this research is to give a formal account of language coordination in dialogue, and semantic coordination in particular. Accounting for semantic coordination requires (1) a semantics, i.e. an architecture allowing for dynamic meanings and meaning updat...

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has created various annotated linguistic data for a variety of common task evaluation programs and projects to create shared linguistic resources. The majority of these annotated linguistic data were created with highly customized annotation tools developed at LDC. The Annotation Graph Toolkit (AGTK) has been used as a primary infrastructure for annotation t...

corrective feedback (cf) and its different types have long absorbed many scholars and practitioners. as ellis (2009) mentioned some experimental studies need to be carefully designed to discover the relative effectiveness of each of these cf techniques. the goal of this qualitative study was to discover whether the employment of different cf strategies could bring about an attitudinal shift. to...

Listeners use linguistic feedback to provide evidence of understanding to speakers. They, in turn, use it to reason about listeners’ mental states, to determine the groundedness of communicated information and to adapt subsequent utterances to the listeners’ needs. We describe a probabilistic model for the interpretation of listener feedback in its dialogue context that enables a speaker to eva...

It is common that students peer-review other students’ writing, and these reviews are useful information to instructors, both on the particulars of the essay being reviewed, the feedback provided and the overall progress of the class. This paper describes a novel approach to summarising feedback in academic essay writing. We present a summarisation method for identifying and extracting represen...

Conceptualising feedback as dialogue places even greater importance on successful interpretation of the message a crucial step leading to uptake feedback. This is not always straightforward it takes place through cultural and linguistic lens that international students bring conversations. research explored role sociocultural competence plays in students’ feedback, unpacking broader language cu...

The object of Linguistics and Information Science (Sparck Jones and Kay, 1973) was to show how far the suppposedly natural connection between linguistics and information science existed in practice. We surveyed linguistic theory and computational linguistics to identify approaches potentially applicable to information science, and to information, i.e., document, retrieval in particular; and we ...