: Integration of heterogeneous information in the context of Internet becomes a key activity to enable a more organized and semantically meaningful access to data sources. As Inter...
This paper describes an attempt to reveal the user’s intention from dialogue acts, thereby improving the effectiveness of natural interfaces to pedagogical agents. It focuses o...
Every time a user engaged in work reads or writes, the user spontaneously generates new information needs: to understand the text he or she is reading or to supply more substance ...
David A. Evans, Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, Jame...
Modeling human behavior requires vast quantities of accurately labeled training data, but for ubiquitous people-aware applications such data is rarely attainable. Even researchers...
Daniel Peebles, Hong Lu, Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem...
Utility elicitation is an important component of many applications, such as decision support systems and recommender systems. Such systems query users about their preferences and ...