As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
This paper describes a behavioural model used to simulate realistic eye-gaze behaviour and body animations for avatars representing participants in a shared immersive virtual envi...
Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, Maia Garau, Anthony Steed,...
Developing software engineering tools is a difficult task, and the environments in which these tools are deployed continually evolve as software developers' processes, tools ...
John C. Grundy, Warwick B. Mugridge, John G. Hoski...
Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a di...
Satinder P. Singh, Diane J. Litman, Michael J. Kea...