Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
We consider the problem of dialogue adaptation in our Smart Personal Assistant (SPA), which uses a plan-based dialogue model. We present a novel way of integrating learning into a...
The retrieval performance of an information retrieval system usually increases when it uses the relationships among the terms contained in a given document collection. However, th...
The problem of building Recommender Systems has attracted considerable attention in recent years, but most recommender systems are designed for recommending items for individuals....
We argue for the necessity of studying human-human spoken conversations of various kinds in order to create user interfaces to databases. An efficient user interface benefits from...
Tiit Hennoste, Olga Gerassimenko, Riina Kasterpalu...