This paper argues that the time is now right to field practical and robust Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) systems. It argues that, at the present state of the art, robustness can best be achieved through user cooperation and compromise with the system. If this insight guides design, several sorts of reliable SLU systems can be deployed over the next few years. Further, SLU systems can be a...

Part One of this document is an annotated bibliography. The bibliography compiles a collection of English language resources pertaining to psychological trauma experienced by children as a result of natural disaster. Most of these publications deal with the psychological impact on children as victims, short-and long-term, and strategies for treatment. This bibliography does not include publicat...

portions of the text may be slightly advanced for someone below a high school level education. This is offset in some chapters with the use of pictures and illustrations. The editors have succeeded marvelously in creating an all-inclusive cleft care resource guide for families. Furthermore, I would strongly recommend that all cleft teams consider this book to be a resource not limited to famili...

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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has been struggling with increasing rates of suicide among military personnel for the past decade. As DoD continues to implement new programs and examine its policies in an effort to prevent military personnel from taking their own lives, it is important to assess its current responses to suicide and to identify opportunities to enhance these programs and po...

Enhancing the self-symmetry of a shape is of fundamental aesthetic virtue. In this paper, we are interested in recovering the aesthetics of intrinsic reflection symmetries, where an asymmetric shape is symmetrized while keeping its general pose and perceived dynamics. The key challenge to intrinsic symmetrization is that the input shape has only approximate reflection symmetries, possibly far f...