We demonstrate a phonotactic-semantic paradigm for spoken document categorization. In this framework, we define a set of acoustic words instead of lexical words to represent acous...
The increasingly huge volume of financial information found in a number of heterogeneous business sources is characterized by unstructured content, disparate data models and impli...
: The development of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) capabilities by incrementally sourcing and combining “best of breed” services from different providers is a key leve...
We present a new methodology of user simulation applied to the evaluation and refinement of stochastic dialog systems. Common weaknesses of these systems are the scarceness of the...
This paper focuses on an aspect that is widely neglected in native XML database management systems: support for concurrent transactional access. We analyze the isolation requireme...