My Colleagues Will Be as My Family

O-23: "Caring My Family Integrity"

When Will My Esophagus Be Fixed?

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A note to my younger colleagues. . .be brave.

In some ways, our best hope to reveal our follies lies with those new to the field. It is your fresh eyes, unbridled enthusiasm, optimism about what is possible, and commitment to the highest ideals of the profession that can reveal what those who have longer tenure in medicine may have trouble discerning. And yet, to be effective and make use of those insights, you must be brave. Surely, you m...

Will my Spoken Dialogue System be a Slow Learner ?

This paper presents a practical methodology for the integration of reinforcement learning during the design of a Spoken Dialogue System (SDS). It proposes a method that enables SDS designers to know, in advance, the number of dialogues that their system will need in order to learn the value of each state-action couple. We ask the designer to provide a user model in a simple way. Then, we run si...

Doctor, who will be looking after my child's diabetes?