This technical report describes the past, current and future research in tracking at the ISIS group.

ISIS (Intelligent Speech for Information Systems) is a trilingual spoken dialog system in the stocks domain. It supports the three languages commonly used in Hong Kong (Cantonese, Putonghua and English), and serves as a test-bed for our research in various speech and language technologies. ISIS also features combined interaction and delegation dialogs, and automatic assimilation of newly listed...

High-dimensional sparse data is prevalent in many real-life applications. In this paper, we propose a novel index structure for accelerating similarity search in high-dimensional sparse databases, named ISIS, which stands for Indexing Sparse databases using Inverted fileS. ISIS clusters a dataset and converts the original high-dimensional space into a new space where each dimension represents a...

Many linguists have observed the emergence of the nonstandard English construction instantiated by the following sentence: “Now the problem is // is that nobody’s going to invade anybody else’s boundaries”. In this pattern (which we will refer to as ISIS), a clausal complement is preceded by two finite forms of the copula, the first of which is typically prosodically prominent and followed by a...

"Intentional binding" refers to the finding that people judge voluntary actions and their effects as having occurred closer together in time than two passively observed events. If this effect reflects subjectively compressed time, then time-dependent visual illusions should be altered by voluntary initiation. To test this hypothesis, we showed participants displays that result in particular mot...

Currently a few integration and e-service development projects are started in Latvia. One of them is Integrated State Information System (ISIS, Latvian abbreviation IVIS), which was started in January 2006. Customer and provider of this project is the Secretariat of Special Assignments Minister for Electronic Government Affairs (SSAMEGA)). This project solution forms the infrastructure for eser...

ISIS (Intelligent Speech for Information Systems) is a trilingual spoken dialog system in the stocks domain. It supports the three languages commonly used in Hong Kong (Cantonese, Putonghua and English), and serves as a test-bed for our research in various speech and language technologies. ISIS also features combined interaction and delegation dialogs, and automatic assimilation of newly listed...