— The performance and efficiency of Web Services can be greatly increased in conversational and streaming message exchanges by streaming the message exchange paradigm. In this pa...
This paper proposes a general framework of for a system with a semantic browsing and visualization interface called Knowledge Communication, Collaboration and Creation Browser (KC...
Michiaki Iwazume, Ken Kaneiwa, Koji Zettsu, Takafu...
Speech synthesis options on assistive communication devices are very limited and do not reflect the user’s vocal quality or personality. Previous work suggests that speakers wit...
Statistical user simulation is an efficient and effective way to train and evaluate the performance of a (spoken) dialog system. In this paper, we design and evaluate a modular da...
We study the forward and backward substitution phases of a sparse multifrontal factorization. These phases are often neglected in papers on sparse direct factorization but, in man...
Patrick Amestoy, Iain S. Duff, Abdou Guermouche, T...