Papers by Bill McDowell
Learning from Omission (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | a recent study shows that pragmatic reasoning improves language understanding systems . end-to-end training produces more accurate utterance interpretation models . |
| Approach: | They show that pragmatic reasoning can improve the quality of learned meanings . they draw pragmatic inferences from listening to what a speaker says and not to what they do . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the quality of language understanding models when sparse data is used. |