We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and i...
Deformable geometric models fit very naturally into the context of Bayesian analysis. The prior probability of boundary shapes is taken to proportional to the negative exponential...
Kenneth M. Hanson, Gregory S. Cunningham, Robert J...
A feature represents a functional requirement fulfilled by a system. Since many maintenance tasks are expressed in terms of features, it is important to establish the corresponden...
Marcus Denker, Jorge Ressia, Orla Greevy, Oscar Ni...
One view of expert system development separates the endeavor into two parts. First, a domain expert, with the aid of a knowledge engineer, articulates a procedure for performing t...
Discriminative methods have shown significant improvements over traditional generative methods in many machine learning applications, but there has been difficulty in extending th...