Learning is the most indispensable activity in the current knowledge-based economy where firms, in order to compete and survive, must be constantly alert, capable of adapting to f...
This paper describes DIDO, a system we have developed to carry out exploratory learning of unfamiliar domains without assistance from an external teacher. The program incorporates...
In this paper the nature and relevance of the information provided by intonation is discussed in the framework of second language learning. As a consequence, an automatic intonati...
The IST project Cuidado, which started in January 2001, aims at producing the first entirely automatic chain for extracting and exploiting musical metadata for browsing music. The...
Abstract. Flexibility to react on rapidly changing general conditions of the environment has become a key factor for economic success of any company. The competitiveness of an ente...