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NAACL
1994
14 years 11 months ago
Towards Better NLP System Evaluation
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....
Karen Sparck Jones
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Using dialogue acts to learn better repair strategies for spoken dialogue systems
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...
Matthew Frampton, Oliver Lemon
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
14 years 11 months ago
Using Reinforcement Learning to Build a Better Model of Dialogue State
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 ...
Joel R. Tetreault, Diane J. Litman
SOSP
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Better I/O through byte-addressable, persistent memory
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 ...
WSC
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Better Selection of the Best
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...
Huaiyu Harry Ma, Thomas R. Willemain