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...
In this paper we describe the design for the Pvault software, which is a personal data manager that stores and retrieves data from a remote untrusted data server securely. The maj...
Ravi Chandra Jammalamadaka, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalin...
Inverted index structures are the mainstay of modern text retrieval systems. They can be constructed quickly using off-line mergebased methods, and provide efficient support for ...
It is argued that we are experiencing a paradigm shift from a user perspective to a client perspective in library and information science. The paradigm shift is brought about by re...
The development of information and communication technologies and the expansion of the Internet means that, nowadays, there are huge amounts of information available via these eme...