A fundamental requirement of any task-oriented dialogue system is the ability to generate obje t des riptions that refer to obje ts in the task domain. The subproblem of ontent sele tion for obje t des riptions in task-oriented dialogue has been the fo us of mu h previous work and a large number of models have been proposed. In this paper, we use the annotated o onut orpus of task-oriented desi...

The objective of this study was to determine the role of individual NFAT isoforms in TNFα-induced retinal leukostasis. To this end, human retinal microvascular endothelial cells (HRMEC) transfected with siRNA targeting individual NFAT isoforms were treated with TNFα, and qRT-PCR was used to examine the contribution of each isoform to the TNFα-induced upregulation of leukocyte adhesion proteins....

Iterative hybrid projection methods have proven to be very effective for solving large linear inverse problems due their inherent regularizing properties as well the added flexibility sele...

Current unit selection speech synthesis voices cannot produce emphasis or interrogative contours because of a lack of the necessary prosodic variation in the recorded speech database. A method of recording script design is proposed which addresses this shortcoming. Appropriate components were added to the target cost function of the Festival Multisyn engine, and a perceptual evaluation showed a...

This paper presents a modif Selective Fault Tolerance method, substantial area reduction over the stat technique is proved to achieve substant and better reliability results when appl with the so-called SAM method for relia The simulation results show that improvement of up to over 20% in terms overhead, compared with the state of the to a classic TMR we obtain improveme with a mean improvement...

A new method of text-independent speaker recognition using discriminative feature selection is proposed in this paper. The method is compared with the classical UBM-GMM and hybrid codebook approaches. The characteristics of the proposed method are as follows: feature parameters extraction, vector quantization with the growing neural gas (GNG) algorithm and discriminative feature selection (DFS)...

Relations between OWFs, PRGs and PRFs (revised) Jan-Erik Ekberg February 19, 2002 1 Introdu tion These le ture notes intend to give an overview of the provable relations between one-way fun tions (OWFs), pseudorandom generators (PRGs) and pseudorandom fun tions (PRFs). Only a sele ted number of proofs and redu tions are thoroughly presented in this paper (most are left to the referen es), but t...