We consider the problem of dialogue adaptation in our Smart Personal Assistant (SPA), which uses a plan-based dialogue model. We present a novel way of integrating learning into a...
The shadow agent is a new type of intelligent virtual agent exploiting the metaphor of the shadow as a medium. The core of the shadow agent is a behavioral architecture inspired b...
Philippe Pasquier, Eunjung Han, Kirak Kim, Keechul...
We present a variational Bayesian framework for performing inference, density estimation and model selection in a special class of graphical models--Hidden Markov Random Fields (H...
Li Cheng, Feng Jiao, Dale Schuurmans, Shaojun Wang
This paper studies the development of autonomic and secure Virtual Organisations (VOs) when following the chemical-programming paradigm. We have selected the Higher-Order Chemical ...
We propose a new family of latent variable models called max-margin min-entropy (m3e) models, which define a distribution over the output and the hidden variables conditioned on ...
Kevin Miller, M. Pawan Kumar, Benjamin Packer, Dan...