The development of natural spoken language dialog systems requires expertise in multiple domains, including speech recognition, natural spoken language understanding and generation, dialog managment and speech synthesis. In this paper I report on our experience at LIMSI in the design, development and evaluation of spoken language dialog systems for information retrieval tasks. Drawing upon our ...

Dr. Muller is the Executive Director, National Association For Continence (NAFC). Dr. Parker-Autry is a second year fellow/clinical instructor, Division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham. The NAFC is a national, private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people with incontinence. The NAFC’s purpose is to be...

The management of children with neurogenic bladder (NB) has remained a source of great dilemma for paediatric urologists since time immemorial. Several paths have been approached to reach the ultimate goal of upper tract preservation as well as to grant a socially acceptable life to these children and their families. Over the years, the 'proactive' approach of universal institution of therapy f...

The adoption of a logical model for temporal, data-intensive Web sites is proposed together with a methodology for the development. The model allows the definition of page-schemes with temporal aspects (which could be related to the page as a whole or to individual components of it). The design process follows a development that starts with a traditional E-R scheme; the various steps lead to a ...

The present contribution adresses the design of pragmatic solutions for various problems occuring within dialogue-based vocal systems using low performance speech recognition engines (SREs), for example in situations where the used speech recognition engine is not fully adapted to the specific application, or the data necessary for training reliable acoustic and language models is not available...