no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2020 • Brian McMahan, Matthew Stone
We analyze a corpus of referential communication through the lens of quantitative models of speaker reasoning.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2020 • Baber Khalid, Malihe Alikhani, Michael Fellner, Brian McMahan, Matthew Stone
Prior approaches to realizing mixed-initiative human--computer referential communication have adopted information-state or collaborative problem-solving approaches.
no code implementations • 23 Oct 2017 • Brian McMahan, Delip Rao
Our key finding is that not only is it possible to transfer representations from an unrelated task like environmental sound classification to a voice-focused task like speech command recognition, but also that doing so improves accuracies significantly.
Environmental Sound Classification General Classification +2
1 code implementation • COLING 2016 • Brian McMahan, Matthew Stone
A key component in surface realization in natural language generation is to choose concrete syntactic relationships to express a target meaning.
no code implementations • TACL 2015 • Brian McMahan, Matthew Stone
Natural language meanings allow speakers to encode important real-world distinctions, but corpora of grounded language use also reveal that speakers categorize the world in different ways and describe situations with different terminology.