This paper investigates the development of a natural language (NL) interface for mixed initiative dialogues within a constrained domain and demonstrates the applicability of the functional approach to NL system development. The system consists of two major components, a natural language subsystem comprises a general-purpose parser that interprets a ‘plug and play’ tagged BNF grammar (which may ...

Business intelligence (BI) and data analytics provide modern enterprises with insights about internal operations, performance, as well as environmental trends, and enable them to make data-driven decisions. Insights resulting from these systems often suggest several alternative changes or corrective actions within the enterprise. In this context, to trade-off and find the most proper action(s) ...

Current medical reimbursement realities may limit the time an anesthesiologist can spend assessing complicated patients preoperatively. Third-party payers increasingly demand admission of sick patients for complex operative procedures on the day of surgery. These patients are often evaluated and counseled in outpatient preanesthesia consultation clinics several days before surgery by busy, semi...

VII. CONCLUSION In this paper, optimal path planning for robot manipulator is presented that utilizes a variational technique. A simplified robot arm is considered to facilitate geometric collision checking scheme. This is incorporated in the variational technique to develop a collision avoidance strategy. The collision checking scheme is rather stringent. However, it reduces the computational ...

In the following we describe the system KoHDaS1 which is an automatic help desk system in a call center that basically leaves the dialogue initiative with the user as far as (s)he wants. The user’s turn circumscribing the problem as a whole is handed to a hierarchy of recurrent plausibility networks which classify the according problem. In the next step the system extracts even only implicitly ...

The present paper contains a short critical description of the roles System Dynamics (SD) can play within a framework for the definition of mediated solutions to complex [environmental] problems. Its main aim is to show how SD can be both a valuable tool for the definition of shared and consensual solutions to environmental problems and a burden or a hindrance since it closes any discussion and...

First, this paper introduces the concept and the upcoming features of Asynchronous Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AAHS). The design of a concrete system will show how the new principles can successfully be applied to build a generic adaptive help module which can be put on top of existing adaptive or non-adaptive web application without the need of refactoring.

The forum system is useful for knowledge sharing and help-seeking. However, the existed forums are having the same problem such like nobody to answer the given questions. In order to attack the problem, this study proposes a human-expert oriented forum architecture to perform efficient knowledge sharing. The system uses fuzzy information retrieval techniques to discover important discussion kno...

IDHS (Intelligent Dictionary Help System) is conceived as a monolingual (explanatory) dictionary system for human use (Artola & Evrard, 92). The fact that it is intended for people instead of automatic processing distinguishes it from other systems dealing with semantic knowledge acquisition from conventional dictionaries. The system provides various access possibilities to the data, allowing t...