Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a di...
Satinder P. Singh, Diane J. Litman, Michael J. Kea...
Modeling and analysis is indispensable in engineering. To be safe and effective, a modeling method requires a language with a validated semantics; feature-rich, easy-to-use, depen...
Mind-boggling complexity of EDA tools necessitates reuse of intellectual property in any large-scale commercial or academic operation. However, due to the nature of software, a to...
Few web developers have been explicitly trained to create accessible web pages, and are unlikely to recognize subtle accessibility and usability concerns that disabled people face...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jeremy T. Brudvik, Bernie Zhang
New forms of social affective applications are emerging, bringing with them challenges in design and evaluation. We report on one such application, conveying wellbeing for both pe...