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EMNLP
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Acquiring Domain-Specific Dialog Information from Task-Oriented Human-Human Interaction through an Unsupervised Learning
We describe an approach for acquiring the domain-specific dialog knowledge required to configure a task-oriented dialog system that uses human-human interaction data. The key aspe...
Ananlada Chotimongkol, Alexander I. Rudnicky
ISSTA
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A comparative study of programmer-written and automatically inferred contracts
Where do contracts — specification elements embedded in executable code — come from? To produce them, should we rely on the programmers, on automatic tools, or some combinati...
Nadia Polikarpova, Ilinca Ciupa, Bertrand Meyer
SAS
2007
Springer
103views Formal Methods» more  SAS 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
Footprint Analysis: A Shape Analysis That Discovers Preconditions
Existing shape analysis algorithms infer descriptions of data structures at program points, starting from a given precondition. We describe an analysis that does not require any pr...
Cristiano Calcagno, Dino Distefano, Peter W. O'Hea...
ISCA
2005
IEEE
135views Hardware» more  ISCA 2005»
15 years 5 months ago
Deconstructing Commodity Storage Clusters
The traditional approach for characterizing complex systems is to run standard workloads and measure the resulting performance as seen by the end user. However, unique opportuniti...
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci...
CL
1999
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Optimizing floating point operations in Scheme
It is well known that dynamic typing in languages like Lisp is costly in terms of performance. Besides the cost of tag checking, the other major source of ine ciency comes from th...
W. F. Wong