Today’s spoken dialog systems rely on procedures such as confidence scores, machine learning approaches, etc. to understand changes in users’ beliefs and intentions. They depend on these scores to decide when to do an implicit or explicit confirmation of a value obtained to fill a required slot. These approaches work reasonably well for small domain-based systems and to make them work, several ...

Product Market Competition and Lobbying Coordination in the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications Industry* by Astrid Jung and Tomaso Duso This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms’ lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying coordination. Applying ...

Today’s disruptive approaches to rearchitecting the Internet, e.g., Clean Slate Networking initiatives require testbeds that present unprecedented flexibility to the experimenter. This poster presents Berlin, a flexible testbed platform designed towards the requirements of Future Internet research. Berlin combines a diverse landscape of network elements, both software-defined and legacy hardwar...

Helmar Waiczies, Stefano Lepore, Jason M Millward, Bettina Purfürst, Thoralf Niendorf, and Sonia Waiczies Ultrahigh Field Imaging in Neuroinflammation, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a cooperation of the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck-Center for...

1Department of Neurology, Asklepios Fachklinikum Teupitz, Teupitz, Germany 2NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 3Department of Neurology, Universitätsspital Basel, Basel, Switzerland 4Department of Neuropathology, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany 5Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Ber...

Galway, Ireland Towards in situ Joint Repair in Osteoarthritis: Regenerative Potential of MSC from OA Patients Tilo Dehne, Jürgen Eder, Philipp Franke, Carsten Perka, Michael Sittinger, Jochen Ringe Corresponding Author Email: [email protected] Tissue Engineering Laboratory and Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-...