In the multi-armed bandit problem, an online algorithm must choose from a set of strategies in a sequence of n trials so as to minimize the total cost of the chosen strategies. Wh...
Recent work investigating the interaction of the speech signal with the meaning of the verbal content has revealed interactions not yet modelled in either speech recognition techn...
Abstract. The purpose of the present paper is to examine the relationships between target and concatenation costs and the quality (with focus on naturalness) of generated speech. S...
The tree structure has received much interest as a versatile architecture for a large class of parallel processing applications. Spanning trees in particular are essential tools f...
We address the problem of answering Web ontology queries efficiently. An ontology is formalized as a Deductive Ontology Base (DOB), a deductive database that comprises the ontology...