When building a new spoken dialogue application, large amounts of domain specific data are required. This paper addresses the issue of generating in-domain training data when litt...
The need for the teaching of professional skills to undergraduates in areas such as communications, team work, conflict resolution, and ethics has for some time been articulated b...
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
Grammatical inference (or grammar inference) has been applied to various problems in areas such as computational biology, and speech and pattern recognition but its application to...
— We study the problem of assigning subscribers to brokers in a wide-area content-based publish/subscribe system. A good assignment should consider both subscriber interests in t...