Cognitive theories of dialogue hold that entrainment, the automatic alignment between dialogue partners at many levels of linguistic representation, is key to facilitating both pr...
Improved acoustic modeling can significantly decrease the error rate in large-vocabulary speech recognition. Our approach to the problem is twofold. We first propose a scheme that...
Fault-tolerant (FT) distributed protocols (such as group membership, consensus, etc.) represent fundamental building blocks for many practical systems, e.g., the Google File System...
The Stardinates are a novel interactive Information Visualization (InfoVis) technique which aims at visualizing highly structured data. They represent some Gestalt principles very...
A key method for privacy preserving data mining is that of randomization. Unlike k-anonymity, this technique does not include public information in the underlying assumptions. In ...