The success of spoken dialog applications depends strongly on the quality of the semantic confidence measure that determines the selection of the dialog strategy. However, the sem...
Abstract We have previously proposed an expressive UML-based language for constructing and transforming security-design models, which are models that combine design specifications...
—New protocols are often useful, but are hard to implement well. Protocol synthesis is a solution, but synthesized protocols can be slow. Implementing protocols will be even more...
A certifying compiler takes a source language program and produces object code, as well as a certi cate" that can be used to verify that the object code satis es desirable pr...
Probabilistic language models are critical to applications in natural language processing that include speech recognition, optical character recognition, and interfaces for text e...