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CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Hidden Information State model: A practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management
This paper explains how Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) can provide a principled mathematical framework for modelling the inherent uncertainty in spoken di...
Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Fran&cced...
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
How a good software practice thwarts collaboration: the multiple roles of APIs in software development
The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Extracting structured information from user queries with semi-supervised conditional random fields
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
RIAO
2000
13 years 11 months ago
A taxonomy of musical genres
The recent progress of Electronic Music Distribution creates a natural pressure for fine-grained musical metadata. This metadata is needed to provide music distribution services w...
François Pachet, Daniel Cazaly
COLING
1996
13 years 11 months ago
GRICE INCORPORATED Cooperativity in Spoken Dialogue
The paper presents a consolidated set of principles of cooperative spoken human-machine dialogue which have the potential tor being turned into practically applicable design guide...
Laila Dybkjær, Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkj...