The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

Alpino is a wide-coverage computational analyzer of Dutch which aims at accurate, full,
parsing of unrestricted text. We describe the head-driven lexicalized grammar and the …

In this paper we present the Alpino Dependency Treebank and the tools that we have
developed to facilitate the annotation process. Annotation typically starts with parsing a …

We present a data-to-speech system called D2S, which can be used for the creation of data-
to-speech systems in different languages and domains. The most important characteristic of …

Clarification requests are an important, relatively common and yet under-studied dialogue
device allowing a user to ask about some feature (eg the meaning or form) of an utterance …

Due to the large variability in the speech signal, the speech recognition process constitutes
the major source of errors in most spoken dialogue systems. A spoken dialogue system can …

The goal of this thesis is to explore how foreign language learning can be facilitated through
the use of intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) based on natural …

We discuss weighted deductive parsing and consider the problem of finding the derivation
with the lowest weight. We show that Knuth's generalization of Dijkstra's algorithm for the …

In this paper I discuss several possible analyses for constituent order in German.
Approaches that assume continuous constituents are compared with an approach that …

This thesis presents a new modelling framework for dialogue management based on the
concept of probabilistic rules. Probabilistic rules are defined as if... then... else constructions …