Browsing by Author "González Bermúdez, Meritxell"
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A flexible dialogue system for enhancing web usability
Gatius Vila, Marta; González Bermúdez, Meritxell (WWW2009, 2009)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn this paper, we study how the performance and usability of web dialogue systems could be enhanced by using an appropriate representation of the different types of knowledge involved in communication: general dialogue ... -
A graphical interface for MT evaluation and error analysis
González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Giménez, J.; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012)
Conference lecture
Open AccessError analysis in machine translation is a necessary step in order to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the MT systems under development and allow fair comparisons among them. This work presents an application ... -
A Question-driven Information system adaptable via Information Extraction techniques
Sapena Masip, Emilio; González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Padró, Lluís; Turmo Borras, Jorge (2008-06-13)
Research report
Open AccessThis paper presents a system is composed by two main parts: The Information Extraction Process, which crawls the web and extracts all relevant knowledge that is then stored in the database, and the Question Processor which ... -
ALICE: Acquisition of Language through an Interactive Comprehension Environment
Fuentes Fort, Maria; González Bermúdez, Meritxell (2011-09-05)
Article
Open AccessIntegration of several state-of-the-art technologies related to spoken language and natural language processing used in Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) systems. We envision to show that the ... -
An analysis of Twitter corpora and the differences between formal and colloquial tweets
González Bermúdez, Meritxell (CEUR-WS.org, 2015)
Conference report
Open AccessThis work reviews recent publications addressing the Twitter translation task, and highlights the lack of appropriate corpora that represents the colloquial language used in Twitter. It also discusses the most well-know ... -
Aprendizaje y asistencia virtual en red
Fuentes Fort, Maria; González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Guardiola Garcia, Marta; Jofre Roca, Lluís; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Vallverdú Bayés, Sisco (2011-01-20)
Research report
Open AccessFavorecer el uso de las Tecnologías de Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en entornos educativos puede abarcar varios aspectos del proceso de aprendizaje. La incorporación de TICs en las aulas contribuye, por un lado a ... -
Aprendizaje y asistencia virtual en red : la prueba Piloto : Cátedra Telefófica UPC : Análisis de le evolución y tendencias futuras de la sociedad de la información
Fuentes Fort, Maria; González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Guardiola Garcia, Marta; Jofre Roca, Lluís; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Vallverdú Bayés, Sisco (2011-07-29)
Research report
Open AccessHemos llevado a cabo una prueba piloto, demostradora del uso de las tecnologías del lenguaje y el habla aplicadas al aprendizaje de inglés. En general, se espera que la actividad acerque al alumno el máximo posible a la ... -
Combining user intention and error modeling for statistical dialog simulators
Quarteroni, Silvia; González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Riccardi, Giuseppe; Varges, Sebastian (2010)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyStatistical user simulation is an efficient and effective way to train and evaluate the performance of a (spoken) dialog system. In this paper, we design and evaluate a modular data-driven dialog simulator where we decouple ... -
Cooperative user models in statistical dialog simulators
González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Quarteroni, Silvia; Riccardi, Giuseppe; Varges, Sebastian (2010)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyStatistical user simulation is a promising methodology to train and evaluate the performance of (spoken) dialog systems. We work with a modular architecture for data-driven simulation where the "intentional" component ... -
Digui: a flexibe dialogue system for guiding the user interaction to guiding the user interaction to acces web services
González Bermúdez, Meritxell (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010-10-22)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessCurrent dialogue systems can handle friendly and collaborative communication that supports diverse types of interactions, such as menus in which the user is asked to choose an option, form filling in which the user is ... -
English language learning activity using spoken language and intelligent computer-assisted technologies
Fuentes Fort, Maria; González Bermúdez, Meritxell (2011)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThis paper presents work in progress on language technologies applied to secondary school education. The application presented integrates several state-of-the-art technologies related to spoken language and intelligent ... -
Estructura y gestión de tareas en un sistema de diálogo para acceder a servicios web
González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Gatius Vila, Marta (2010)
Conference report
Open AccessLos sistemas de diálogo se pueden ver como una interfaz de usuario para acceder a otras aplicaciones. No sólo tienen que tratar con los requerimientos de los usuarios, sino también con los propios de las aplicaciones. Este ... -
Guiding the user when searching information on the web
Gatius Vila, Marta; González Bermúdez, Meritxell (2010)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper describes how we approach the problem of guiding the user when accessing informational web services. We developed a mixed-initiative dialogue system that provides access to web services in several languages. ... -
Hacia la interacción en lenguaje natural
Fuentes Fort, Maria; González Bermúdez, Meritxell (2011-02-06)
Article
Open AccessEn éste documento se presenta la investigación que está siendo llevada a cabo en el Grupo de Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural (GPLN) de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC). En concreto, hemos articulado la ... -
IPA and STOUT: leveraging linguistic and source-based features for machine translation evaluation
González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper describes the UPC submissions to the WMT14 Metrics Shared Task : UPC-IPA and UPC-STOUT. These metrics use a collection of evaluation measures integrated in ASIYA, a toolkit for machine translation evaluation. ... -
MT techniques in a retrieval system of semantically enriched patents
González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Mateva, Maria; Enache, Ramona; España Bonet, Cristina; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís; Popov, Borislav; Ranta, Aarne (2013)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThis paper focuses on how automatic translation techniques integrated in a patent retrieval system increase its capabilities and make possible extended features and functionalities. We describe 1) a novel methodology ... -
Ontology-driven voiceXML dialogues generation
Gatius Vila, Marta; González Bermúdez, Meritxell (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2004)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThis paper describes a proposal to improve the communication process and the engineering features in VoiceXML dialogues. This proposal is focused on the efficient and reusable representation of the knowledge involved in ... -
Patent translation within the MOLTO project
España Bonet, Cristina; Enache, Ramona; Slaski, Adam; Ranta, Aarne; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís; González Bermúdez, Meritxell (2011)
Conference lecture
Open AccessMOLTO is an FP7 European project whose goal is to translate texts between multiple languages in real time with high quality. Patents translation is a case of study where research is focused on simultaneously obtaining a ... -
The patents retrieval prototype in the MOLTO project
Chechev, Milen; González Bermúdez, Meritxell; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís; España Bonet, Cristina (ACM Press. Association for Computing Machinery, 2012)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper describes the patents retrieval prototype developed within the MOLTO project. The prototype aims to provide a multilingual natural language interface for querying the content of patent documents. The developed ... -
The project HOPS: enabling an intelligent natural language based hub for the deployment of advanced semantically enriched multi-channel mass-scale online public services
Gatius Vila, Marta; González Bermúdez, Meritxell (2005-09)
Article
Open AccessEl objetivo principal del proyecto HOPS es desarrollar una plataforma multimodal y multilingüe que facilite el acceso de los ciutadanos a sus adminitraciones más próximas. El proyecto integra tecnologías de voz, procesamiento ...