In order for intelligent systems to be applicable in a wide range of situations, end users must be able to modify their task descriptions. We introduce Tailor, a system that allow...
We present PLIANT, a learning system that supports adaptive assistance in an open calendaring system. PLIANT learns user preferences from the feedback that naturally occurs during...
Melinda T. Gervasio, Michael D. Moffitt, Martha E....
Personal assistants need to allow the user to interact with the system in a flexible and adaptive way such as through spoken language dialogue. In this research we focus on an ap...
The temporal elements of users’ information requirements are a continually confounding aspect of digital library design. No sooner have users’ needs been identified and suppor...
In this document, we describe a light-weighted ontology mediation method that allows users to send semantic queries to distant data repositories to browse for learning object meta...