People: William Schuler

William Schuler

Computer Science and Engineering
EE/CS 5-225F
University of Minnesota
schuler@cs.umn.edu
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Ph: (612) 626-7502

William Schuler: Most of my research is directed toward the development of statistical models of language for spoken language interfaces that not only generate probabilities for the words and syntactic structure of input utterances, but also generate probabilities for the meanings or denotations of utterances in the context of an interface's underlying application environment or world model. These denotations are then used to condition the probability estimates of hypothesized syntactic structures and words of an utterance. My students and I are currently working on further extending these models to incorporate uncertainty in the agent's perception of its environment, as an interface to a robot, sensor, or other real-world agent would require.