In languages that use diacritical characters, if these special signs are stripped-off from a word, the resulted string of characters may not exist in the language, and therefore i...
The training of support vector machines (SVM) involves a quadratic programming problem, which is often optimized by a complicated numerical solver. In this paper, we propose a muc...
Integrating multiple functions into one communication user agent can introduce many innovative communication services. For example, with networked appliance control, a user agent c...
This paper describes a novel method by which a dialogue agent can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy. While it is widely agreed that dialogue strategies should be formul...
Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne Frommer, Shrikanth Naray...
Declarative models play an important role in most software design activities, by allowing designs to be constructed that selectively abstract over complex implementation details. ...
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Tony Griffiths, Norman W....