Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Nonprofit organizations often need to excel in coordinating with other organizations and must do so in a variety of contexts and levels from the informal to the formal. Their abil...
Jennifer Stoll, W. Keith Edwards, Elizabeth D. Myn...
The ACAV project aims to explore how the accessibility of web videos can be improved by providing rich descriptions of video content in order to personalize the rendering of the c...
The motivation behind many Information Retrieval systems is to identify and present relevant information to people given their current goals and needs. Learning about user preferen...
Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, Bar...
We describe an approach to improving the naturalness of a social dialogue system, Talkie, by adding disfluencies and other content-independent enhancements to synthesized conversa...