Traffic congestion is the cause of pollution and economic loss. The Real time traffic state report can alleviate this problem by assisting drivers for route planning and choosing unblocked roads. More traffic informat...
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The paper presents modern advanced development methods of control systems that minimizes the cost of development of applications which are widely applicable in industrial control of whole range of processes.
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The paper presents modern advanced development methods of control systems that minimizes the cost of development of applications which are widely applicable in industrial control of whole range of processes.
This paper presents an initial attempt at the use of crowd-sourcing for collection of user judgments on spoken dialog systems (SDSs). This is implemented on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), where a Requester can design...
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This paper presents an initial attempt at the use of crowd-sourcing for collection of user judgments on spoken dialog systems (SDSs). This is implemented on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), where a Requester can design a human intelligence task (HIT) to be performed by a large number of Workers efficiently and cost-effectively. We describe a design methodology for two types of HITs - the first targets at fast rating of a large number of dialogs regarding some dimensions of the SDS's performance and the second aims to assess the reliability of Workers on MTurk through the variability in ratings across different Workers. A set of approval rules are also designed to control the quality of ratings from MTurk. At the end of the collection work, user judgments for about 8,000 dialogs rated by around 700Workers are collected in 45 days. We observe reasonable consistency between the manual MTurk ratings and an automatic categorization of dialogs in terms of task completion, which partially verifies the reliability of the approved ratings from MTurk. From the second type of HITs, we also observe moderate inter-rater agreement for ratings in task completion which provides support for the utilization of MTurk as a judgments collection platform. Further research on the exploration of SDS evaluation models could be developed based on the collected corpus.
Development of spoken dialog systems (SDSs) can be facilitated by better evaluation methods. Previous methods seldom consider the efficiency of the system, which is important to users. We study the problem of evaluati...
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Development of spoken dialog systems (SDSs) can be facilitated by better evaluation methods. Previous methods seldom consider the efficiency of the system, which is important to users. We study the problem of evaluating SDSs and propose a new framework by generalizing states from utterances of dialogs to build finite state machine (FSM). These states can be regarded as efficiency measurement of SDSs. The FSM framework models dialogs as paths in an FSM to combine efficiency measurement with regression models. The proposed FSM framework can be applied in conjunction with regression models to improve evaluation accuracy. We compare our FSM framework combined with three regression models in several experiments. We obtain promising results on a collection of dialogs from the “Let's Go!” system, with our approach outperforming regression models.
User evaluations of dialogs from a spoken dialog system (SDS) can be directly used to gauge the system's performance. However, it is costly to obtain manual evaluations of a large corpus of dialogs. Semi-supervise...
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User evaluations of dialogs from a spoken dialog system (SDS) can be directly used to gauge the system's performance. However, it is costly to obtain manual evaluations of a large corpus of dialogs. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a possible solution. This process learns from a small amount of manually labeled data, together with a large amount of unlabeled data, and can later be used to perform automatic labeling. We conduct comparative experiments among SSL approaches, classical regression and supervised learning in evaluation of dialogs from CMU's Let's Go Bus Information system. Two typical SSL methods, namely co-training and semi-supervised support vector machine (S3VM), are found to outperform the other approaches in automatically predicting user evaluations of unseen dialogs in the case of low training rate.
Teaching software engineering has been recognized as an important challenge for computerscience undergraduate programs. Instruction in such area requires not only to deliver theoretical knowledge, but also to perform...
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Teaching software engineering has been recognized as an important challenge for computerscience undergraduate programs. Instruction in such area requires not only to deliver theoretical knowledge, but also to perform practical experiences that allow students to assimilate and apply such knowledge. This paper presents some results of two computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) experiences that involved students of software engineering courses from four Latin American Universities. The obtained results were satisfactory and indicate the reported collaborative activity could be appropriate to address teaching software engineering.
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to study changes in cerebral blood oxygenation during a verbal fluency task. Five right-handed male volunteers matched on demographic variables and verbal fluency...
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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to study changes in cerebral blood oxygenation during a verbal fluency task. Five right-handed male volunteers matched on demographic variables and verbal fluency performance participated in the study. Images were acquired over 5 minutes at 1.5 T while the subjects performed two tasks. The first involved paced silent generation of words beginning with an aurally presented cue letter. This task alternated with paced silent repetition of the aurally presented word "rest." Significant responses were observed in the left prefrontal cortex, the insula bilaterally, the midline supplementary motor area, and the medial parietal cortex.
This paper deals with a passive-decomposition based control of bilateral teleoperation between a single master robot and multiple cooperative slave robots under time varying delay in the communication line. At first, ...
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This paper deals with a passive-decomposition based control of bilateral teleoperation between a single master robot and multiple cooperative slave robots under time varying delay in the communication line. At first, we decompose the dynamics of multiple slave robots into two decoupled dynamics: the Shape-system describing dynamics of the cooperative works, and the Locked-system representing overall behavior of the multiple slave robots. Second, we propose a PD control method for bilateral teleoperation to guarantee the asymptotical stability of the system for time varying delay. Finally, experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposed teleoperation.
It is well-known that the DoubleMinOver classifier as an extendibility of MinOver was developed to provide a maximum margin solution with a bias. But, it can be found that the DoubleMinOver algorithm only classifies t...
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It is well-known that the DoubleMinOver classifier as an extendibility of MinOver was developed to provide a maximum margin solution with a bias. But, it can be found that the DoubleMinOver algorithm only classifies the vector pattern and fails to work in the pattern represented with the second-order tensor. In this paper, we propose a novel DoubleMinOver classifier named STDoubleMinOver that can directly classify the second-order tensor pattern. Compared with the existing DoubleMinOver with only one weight w, the proposed STDoubleMinOver induces two weight vectors u and v so as to deal with the second-order tensor. The experiments here have demonstrated that the proposed STDoubleMinOver has a superior classification to the vectorized DoubleMinOver.
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