Spoken language systems (SLSs) for accessing information sources or services through the telephone network and the Internet are currently being trialed and deployed for a variety of tasks. Evaluating the usability of different interface designs requires a method for comparing performance of different versions of the SLS. Recently, Walker et al (1997) proposed PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue Sys...

Povzetek Opišemo potencialno splošno metodologijo vrednotenja učinkovitosti sistemov za dialog, imenovano ogrodje PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation). Ogrodje PARADISE omogoča izpeljavo ocene učinkovitosti sistema kot uteženo linearno kombinacijo od domene odvisnih parametrov uspešnosti naloge in cen dialoga, zajema pa model učinkovitosti sistema, katerega osnovni cilj je maksimi...

We developed three systems based on automatic paraphrasing techniques to help English learners and English-language beginners. One system extracts personal error patterns in the user’s English usage. The second transforms English sentences containing the letters “l” and “r” into sentences containing fewer instances of these letters, which Japanese people have trouble pronouncing properly in Eng...

The focus of the Paradise project [1,2] is to design and implement a scalable database system capable of storing and processing massive data sets such as those produced by NASA’s EOSDIS project. This paper describes extensions to Paradise to handle the execution of queries involving collections of satellite images stored on tertiary storage. Several modifications were made to Paradise in order ...

Iranian Islamic gardens like almost every cultures, represent beauty and happiness and improve the public perception. It has also special geometry with philosophical concept related to Islam’s doctrine that is the focus of this research. Following Quran’s contents, paradise is a beautiful sophisticated garden that something flows under its trees. So the comparison between the somatic geometry o...

one of the major problems in today's hectic world is that people have no time to think about the man and his role in the universe. they are constantly trying to move forward without paying any attention to the detail, the correctness of the step, and everything which is ahead of them. it seems that previous philosophers have more time and patience in this matter and have given more attention t...