A new direction in improving modern dialogue systems is to make a human-machine dialogue more similar to a human-human dialogue. This can be done by adding more input modalities, e...
We introduce the new notion of XML Stream Attribute Grammars (XSAGs). XSAGs are the first scalable query language for XML streams (running strictly in linear time with bounded mem...
Moving-objects databases need a spatio-temporal indexing scheme for moving objects to efficiently process queries over continuously changing locations of the objects. A simple exte...
Query optimizers in current database management systems (DBMS) often face problems such as intolerably long optimization time and/or poor optimization results when optimizing compl...
Abstract. We present an interface that allows creating camera scripts and storyboards for virtual scenes through a multimodal combination of speech and gestures. Users can specify ...