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Enhancing Natural Language Understanding through Cross-Modal Interaction: Meaning Recovery from Acoustically Noisy Speech

Özge Alaçam
Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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Published in: Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), September 30 - October 2, Turku, Finland

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 167:28, p. 272--280

NEALT Proceedings Series 42:28, p. 272--280

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Published: 2019-10-02

ISBN: 978-91-7929-995-8

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Cross-modality between vision and language is a key component for effective and ef?cient communication, and human language processing mechanism successfully integrates information from various modalities to extract the intended meaning. However, incomplete linguistic input, i.e. due to a noisy environment, is one of the challenges for a successful communication. In that case, an incompleteness in one channel can be compensated by information from another one. In this paper, by conducting visual-world paradigm, we investigated the dynamics between syntactically possible gap ?llers and the visual arrangements in incomplete German sentences and their effect on overall sentence interpretation.

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text completion meaning recovery Negation situated language understanding

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