Kernel based methods such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) have provided successful tools for solving many recognition problems. One of the reason of this success is the use of ker...
In Java, an interface specifies public abstract methods and associated public constants. Conformance of a class to an interface is by name. We propose to allow structural conforma...
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...
: WordNet (WN) is a lexical knowledge base, first developed for English and then adopted for several Western European languages, which was created as a machinereadable dictionary b...
Saddle-point problems give rise to indefinite linear systems that are challenging to solve via iterative methods. This paper surveys two recent techniques for solving such problem...