Statistical user simulation is a promising methodology to train and evaluate the performance of (spoken) dialog systems. We work with a modular architecture for data-driven simula...
The evolution of mobile technologies, like web-enable cellphones, PDAs and wireless networks, makes it now possible to use these technologies for collaborative work through web-bas...
MAP estimation of Gaussian mixtures through maximisation of penalised likelihoods was used to learn models of spatial context. This enabled prior beliefs about the scale, orientat...
The goal of Web search personalization is to tailor search results to a particular user based on that user's interests and preferences. We present an approach to personalized...
The use of well-nested linear context-free rewriting systems has been empirically motivated for modeling of the syntax of languages with discontinuous constituents or relatively f...