This paper considers key elements of evaluation methodology, indicating the many points involved and advocating an unpacking approach in specifying an evaluation remit and design....
Repair or error-recovery strategies are an important design issue in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDSs) - how to conduct the dialogue when there is no progress (e.g. due to repeated A...
Given the growing complexity of tasks that spoken dialogue systems are trying to handle, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been increasingly used as a way of automatically learning ...
Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memo...
Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher ...
We present a new method of selecting the best of several competing system designs on the basis of expected steadystate performance. The method uses a new form of timeseries bootst...