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SEMWEB
2010
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Towards Semantic Annotation Supported by Dependency Linguistics and ILP
In this paper we present a method for semantic annotation of texts, which is based on a deep linguistic analysis (DLA) and Inductive Logic Programming (ILP). The combination of DLA...
Jan Dedek
SIGDIAL
2010
15 years 3 months ago
Towards Improving the Naturalness of Social Conversations with Dialogue Systems
We describe an approach to improving the naturalness of a social dialogue system, Talkie, by adding disfluencies and other content-independent enhancements to synthesized conversa...
Matthew Marge, João Miranda, Alan W. Black,...
ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 19 days ago
Monitoring social expectations in Second Life
Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place...
Stephen Cranefield, Guannan Li
MRC
2003
197views Robotics» more  MRC 2003»
15 years 7 months ago
Blue Swarm 2.5: A Step Toward an Autonomous Swarm of Search and Rescue Robots
Urban search and rescue is a difficult domain for autonomous mobile robots to operate in. The environment can be expected to be highly unstructured, with many obstacles and hazard...
Daniel P. Stormont, Matthew D. Berkemeier
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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that “in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” In th...
Geeta Shroff, Matthew Kam