William Schuler

William Schuler
PECASE awardee (more info, pic)

Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Minnesota

Natural Language Processing Lab
Center for Cognitive Sciences
Digital Technology Center

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1 ACL/3 COLING
1 AAAI
1 IJCAI
2 UAI
4 Intersp/8 ICASSP
9 HRI
9 IUI

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Software:

SLUSH - Spoken Language Understanding Shell toolkit: available Jul 9 2008
an object-oriented framework for building interactive semantic probability models for speech interfaces.
(free for research purposes; contact: William Schuler)
RVTL - Random Variable Template Library: available Jul 9 2008
a set of C++ class templates implementing factored probability models on multi-core and networked computers.
(free for research purposes; contact: William Schuler)

Articles Under Review / In Press:

A Syntactic Model for Recognizing Speech with Repair.
Tim Miller, William Schuler. Under review.
Describes results for parsing incomplete constituents in both fluent speech and speech repairs using the same right-corner transform grammar described in previous work.
Broad-Coverage Incremental Parsing using Human-Like Memory Constraints.
William Schuler, Samir AbdelRahman, Tim Miller, Lane Schwartz. Under review.
Describes results for parsing the Penn Treebank using a right-corner transform grammar and a four-element stack.
A Framework for Fast Incremental Interpretation during Speech Decoding.
William Schuler, Stephen Wu, Lane Schwartz. Computational Linguistics, in press.
Describes results of using referential semantic context to guide real-time speech recognition in a file organization application.

Selected Publications:

A Syntactic Time-Series Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech.
Tim Miller and William Schuler.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), Manchester, UK, 2008.
Toward a Psycholinguistically-Motivated Model of Language Processing.
William Schuler, Samir AbdelRahman, Tim Miller, Lane Schwartz
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), Manchester, UK, 2008.
A Unified Syntactic Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech.
Tim Miller and William Schuler.
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08), Columbus, OH, 2008.
Referential Semantic Language Modeling for Data-Poor Domains.
Stephen Wu, Lane Schwartz, William Schuler
Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'08), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.
Exploiting Referential Context in Spoken Language Interfaces for Data-Poor Domains.
Stephen Wu, Lane Schwartz, William Schuler
Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'08), Canary Islands, Spain, 2008.
Incremental Semantic Models for Continuous Context-Sensitive Speech Recognition.
Tim Miller, Lane Schwartz, William Schuler
Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Representation of Spoken Language (SRSL'07), Salamanca, Spain, 2007.
Elements of a Spoken Language Programming Interface for Robots.
Tim Miller, Andy Exley, William Schuler
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI'07), Washington, D.C., 2007.
Dynamic Evidence Models in a DBN Phone Recognizer.
William Schuler, Tim Miller, Andrew Exley, Stephen Wu
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP/Interspeech'06), pages 1221–1224, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2006.
Integrating Denotational Meaning into a DBN Language Model.
William Schuler and Tim Miller
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech/Interspeech'05), Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.
Exploiting a Sensed Environment to Improve Human-Agent Communication
Shana Watters, Tim Miller, Praveen Balachandran, William Schuler, Richard Voyles
Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AA/MAS'05), pages 44–50, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005.
On relations of constituency and dependency grammars.
Mark Dras, David Chiang, and William Schuler,
Research on Language and Computation 2(2):281–305, Kluwer, 2004.
Using model-theoretic semantic interpretation to guide statistical parsing and word recognition in a spoken language interface.
William Schuler,
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'03), pages 529–536, Sapporo, Japan, 2003.
Interleaved semantic interpretation in environment-based parsing.
William Schuler,
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'02), pages 897–903, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.
ACUMEN: Amplifying control and understanding of multiple entities.
Jan Allbeck, Karin Kipper, Charles Adams, William Schuler, Elena Zoubanova, Norm Badler, Martha Palmer and Aravind Joshi.
Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AA/MAS'02), pages 191–198, Bologna, Italy, 2002.
Computational properties of environment-based disambiguation.
William Schuler,
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'01), pages 466–473, Toulouse, France, 2001.
Multi-component TAG and notions of formal power.
William Schuler, David Chiang and Mark Dras,
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'00), pages 448–455, Hong Kong, China, 2000.
Dynamically altering agent behaviors using natural language instructions.
Rama Bindiganavale, William Schuler, Jan Allbeck, Norman Badler, Aravind Joshi and Martha Palmer,
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA'00), pages 191–198, Barcelona, Spain, 2000.
A machine translation system from English to American Sign Language.
Liwei Zhao, Karin Kipper, William Schuler and Norman Badler,
Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA'00), pages 293–300, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2000.
Preserving dependencies in synchronous tree adjoining grammars.
William Schuler,
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), pages 88–95, College Park, Maryland, 1999.
Restrictions on tree adjoining grammars.
Giorgio Satta and William Schuler,
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL'98), pages 1176–1182, Montreal, Canada, 1998.

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