Spoken dialogue systems have a strong requirement to produce concise and informative utterances. While interacting over a phone, users must both understand the system’s utterances, and remember important facts that the system is providing. Thus most dialogue systems implement some combination of different techniques for (1) option selection: pruning the set of options; (2) information selection...

Scrolling through text documents is a cumbersome and ineffective means of getting context and overview. I present a superior technique that augments scrolling by using elision to simulate zooming. This allows smooth, rapid transitions between overview and detail and effectively supports the task of recovering lost context when reading or navigating through a document. I describe an implementati...

Hardware lock elision (HLE) concurrently executes lock critical sections as hardware transactions, but fallbacks to the original sequential lock fallback path when some hardware transaction fails. Recent software-assisted lock-removal based schemes provide a better concurrency by sacrificing safety (opacity). Hardware transactions can execute at the same time with the lock fallback path as long...

In this paper, a fuzzy modeling method using genetic algorithms (GAs) with a conciseness measure is presented. This paper introduces De Luca and Termini's fuzzy entropy to evaluate the shape of a membership function, and proposes another measure to evaluate the deviation of a membership function from symmetry. A combined measure is then derived from these two measures, and a new conciseness mea...

UNLABELLED The purpose of the present study was to explore the phonological working memory of adults who stutter through the use of a non-word repetition and a phoneme elision task. Participants were 14 adults who stutter (M=28 years) and 14 age/gender matched adults who do not stutter (M=28 years). For the non-word repetition task, the participants had to repeat a set of 12 non-words across fo...