We present an end-to-end conversational system for TV program discovery that uniquely combines advanced technologies for NLU, Dialog Management, Knowledge Graph Inference and Personalized Recommendations. It uses a semantically rich relational representation of dialog state and knowedge graph inference for queries. The recommender combines evidence for user preferences from multiple modalities ...

In this paper, we present a speech-driven second screen application for TV program discovery. We give an overview of the application and its architecture. We also present a user study along with a failure analysis. The results from the study are encouraging, and demonstrate our application’s effectiveness in the target domain. We conclude with a discussion of follow-on efforts to further enhanc...

TV program structuring raised as a major theme in the last decade for the task of high quality indexing of multimedia content. Studying program structuring focuses on finding key instants of events of interest, understanding the underlying structures of programs. In earlier literature, some studies of TV program structuring addressed the problem of event detection or scene segmentation, which i...

BACKGROUND Parent-report and child perception of familial support for weight-related behaviors may not be congruent. This research explores whether parent-report or child perception is more strongly associated with child-reported physical activity and television (TV) use. METHODS Elementary school children (n = 73) participating in Ready. Set. ACTION!, a theater-based obesity prevention pilot...

several studies and researches have been conducted in the world since 1950 to assess and evaluate the media news credibility, and in this regard the researches tried to investigate the media news from different angles. the finding of any such researches and studies quite indicate that the credibility is a multidimensional construct and thus, a reliable and successful survey in this connection i...

Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) is the second most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the world. It is associated with significant morbidity in women: pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), concurrent vaginitis and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), post-operative infection, and pregnancy complications. TV infection has been implicated in HIV acquisition and transmission in men and wome...

Advertising revenues are the primary source of income for cable television networks and the survival of a network strongly depends on the efficient management of its commercial inventory. Networks enter into advertising contracts that promise delivery of a certain number of impressions with specified demographic characteristics. However, the actual delivery of impressions is stochastic, and the...