This paper discusses an information extraction (IE) system, Textract, in natural language (NL) question answering (QA) and examines the role of IE in QA application. It shows: (i)...
Explanation-Based Reinforcement Learning (EBRL) was introduced by Dietterich and Flann as a way of combining the ability of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to learn optimal plans with...
Most existing dialogue systems have been developed specifically for some predefined task domain(s), thus the issues of extensibility and reuse of the dialogue model are often no...
An E-Partner is a photo-realistic conversation agent, which has a talking head that not only look photo-realistic but also can have a conversation with the user about a given topic...
Bo Zhang, Changbo Hu, Qingsheng Cai, Baining Guo, ...
Extracting performance from many-core architectures requires software engineers to create multi-threaded applications, which significantly complicates the already daunting task of...