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When Will My Esophagus Be Fixed?

CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Hiroto Miwa, MD, PhD Division of Upper Gastroenterology, Department of ...

Will this paper ever be cited?

It is an accepted fact of academic life that some papers, in whatever discipline and wherever published, will never be cited. Empirical support for this can be found in studies such as those reported by Glanzel (1992), Rousseau (1994), and Egghe (2000) where the distribution of the time of first citation is investigated. In all cases, it is assumed that never-citation is connected with the perc...

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...

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