The lack of trust amongst consumers and concerns about disclosing personal information are commonly seen as a major impediment to the growth of e-commerce. This is a consequence o...
The demographics of computer-mediated communication (CMC) users have changed considerably over the last twenty years. Whereas in the 1980's it was largely academics, and comp...
The performance evaluation of an information retrieval system is a decisive aspect for the measure of the improvements in search technology. Our work intends to provide a framewor...
Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a new teaching-learning method originated from the changes that have occurred in the world economical basis and in the information and communicatio...
Hernane Borges de Barros Pereira, Gabriela Ribeiro...
This paper concerns the discourse understanding process in spoken dialogue systems. This process enables the system to understand user utterances based on the context of a dialogu...