This study describes a discourse approach to explanation aware knowledge representation. It presents a reasoning model that adheres to argumentation as found in written discourse,...
This paper describes a hybrid model that combines machine learning with linguistic heuristics for integrating unknown word identification with Chinese word segmentation. The model...
In a conversational system, determining a user’s focus of attention is crucial to the success of the system. Motivated by previous psycholinguistic findings, we are currently e...
This paper describes an innovative framework, iFAOSimo, which integrates optimization, simulation and GIS (geographic information system) techniques to handle complex spatial faci...
The changing needs of healthcare provision around the world are forcing service designers and decision makers to adopt new tools in design and evaluation of processes. Apart from ...