Joyce Chai, Jimmy Lin, Wlodek Zadrozny, Yiming Ye, Margo Budzikowska, Veronika Horvath, ...
This paper describes the evaluation of a natural language dialog based navigation system (HappyAssistant) that helps users access e-commerce sites to find relevant information about products and...
Joyce Chai, Jimmy Lin, Wlodek Zadrozny, Yiming Ye, Margo Budzikowska, Veronika Horvath, ...
This paper describes the evaluation of a natural language dialog based navigation system (HappyAssistant) that helps users access e-commerce sites to find relevant information about products and...
Factorizing complex models: A case study in mention detection (2006)
Radu Florian, Hongyan Jing, A Kambhatla, Imed Zitouni
As natural language understanding research advances towards deeper knowledge modeling, the tasks become more and more complex: we are interested in more nuanced word characteristics, more linguistic...
A Mention-Synchronous Coreference Resolution Algorithm Based on the Bell Tree (2004)
Xiaoqiang Luo, Abe Ittycheriah, Hongyan Jing, A Kambhatla, Salim Roukos
This paper proposes a new approach for coreference resolution which uses the Bell tree to represent the search space and casts the coreference resolution problem as finding the best path from the...
A flexible framework for developing mixedinitiative dialog systems (2002)
Judith Hochberg, A Kambhatla, Salim Roukos
We present a new framework for rapid development of mixed-initiative dialog systems. Using this framework, a developer can author sophisticated dialog systems for multiple channels of interaction by...
Natural language assistant – A dialog system for online product recommendation (2002)
Joyce Chai, Veronika Horvath, Nicolas Nicolov, Margo Stys, A Kambhatla, Wlodek Zadrozny, ...
With the emergence of e-commerce systems, successful information access on e-commerce websites becomes essential. Menu-driven navigation and keyword search currently provided by most commercial sites...
The Role of a Natural Language Conversational Interface in Online Sales: A Case Study (2001)
Joyce Chai, Jimmy Lin, Wlodek Zadrozny, Yiming Ye, Margo Stys-budzikowska, Veronika Horvath, ...
This paper describes the evaluation of a natural language dialog based navigation system (HappyAssistant) that helps users access e-commerce sites to find relevant information about products and...
A Conversational Interface for Online Shopping (2001)
Joyce Chai Veronika, Joyce Chai, Veronika Horvath, A Kambhatla, Nicolas Nicolov, Margo Stys-budzikowska
We present a deployed, conversational dialog system that assists users in finding computers based on their usage patterns and constraints on specifications. We discuss findings from a market survey...
Conversational Sales Assistant for Online Shopping (2001)
Margo Budzikowska Joyce, Joyce Chai, Veronika Horvath, A Kambhatla, Nicolas Nicolov, Wlodek Zadrozny
Websites of businesses should accommodate both customer needs and business requirements. Traditional menu-driven navigation and key word search do not allow users to describe their intentions...
2001. Natural Language Sales Assistant - a Web-based Dialog System for Online Sales (2001)
Joyce Chai, Veronika Horvath, Nicolas Nicolov, Margo Stys-budzikowska, A Kambhatla, Wlodek Zadrozny
This paper describes a web-based dialog system – Natural Language Sales Assistant (NLSA) – that helps users find relevant information about products and services in ecommerce sites. The system...
Dragomir R. Radev, A Kambhatla, Yiming Ye, Catherine Wolf, Wlodek Zadrozny
In this paper, we propose using standard XML messaging interfaces between components of natural language dialog systems. We describe a stock trading and information access system, where XML is used...
DSML: A Proposal for XML Standards for Messaging Between (1999)
Components Of Natural, Dragomir R. Radev, A Kambhatla, Yiming Ye, Catherine Wolf, Wlodek Zadrozny
In this paper, we propose using standard XML messaging interfaces between components of natural language dialog systems. We describe a stock trading and information access system, where XML is used...
Dragomir R. Radev, A Kambhatla, Yiming Ye, Catherine Wolf, Wlodek Zadrozny
In this paper, we propose using standard XML messaging interfaces between components of natural language dialog systems. We describe a stock trading and information access system, where XML is used...
Conversation Machines for Transaction Processing (1998)
Wlodek Zadrozny, Catherine Wolf, Nanda Kambhatla, A Kambhatla, Yiming Ye
We have built a set of integrated AI systems (called conversation machines) to enable transaction processing over the telephone for limited domains like stock trading and banking. The conversation...
Fast Non-Linear Dimension Reduction (1994)
Nanda Kambhatla, Todd K., A Kambhatla, Todd K. Leen
We present a fast algorithm for non-linear dimension reduction. The algorithm builds a local linear model of the data by merging PCA with clustering based on a new distortion measure. Experiments...