We use an EM algorithm to learn user models in a spoken dialog system. Our method requires automatically transcribed (with ASR) dialog corpora, plus a model of transcription error...
Current approaches for answering queries with imprecise constraints require user-specific distance metrics and importance measures for attributes of interest - metrics that are ha...
The Repertory Grid method is widely used in knowledge engineering to infer functional relationships between constructs given by an expert. The method is ignoring information that c...
Transfer learning aims at reusing the knowledge in some source tasks to improve the learning of a target task. Many transfer learning methods assume that the source tasks and the ...
Bin Cao, Sinno Jialin Pan, Yu Zhang, Dit-Yan Yeung...
Although it is usually assumed in many pattern recognition problems that different patterns are distinguishable, some patterns may have inseparable overlap. For example, some faci...