Creating conversational interfaces for children is challenging in several respects. These include acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition (ASR), language and dialog mode...
Understanding the relationship between queueing delays and link utilization for general traffic conditions is an important open problem in networking research. Difficulties in und...
: This paper presents the results of a user study conducted in the framework of the Interactive Image Retrieval task at CLEF 2009. The main goal of our research is to understand th...
Understanding the ways in which information achieves widespread public awareness is a research question of significant interest. We consider whether, and how, the way in which th...
We present a new approach for the discriminative training
of continuous-valued Markov Random Field (MRF)
model parameters. In our approach we train the MRF
model by optimizing t...