Fundamentals of User Studies
Overview of important methods and techniques applied in user studies from the perspective of academic research, and also from the perspective of product development. The talk is ended with two examples of projects done at…
Spoken Dialogue Systems – Personal Assistants and Non-Task Oriented Systems
Part 2 of Alan W Black’s Spoken Dialogue Systems talk based on lectures he gave at Carnegie Mellon University.
Spoken Dialog Systems – Task Oriented Systems
Tutorial on what actual dialog systems are like and the problems we have with them, based on lectures Alan gave at Carnegie Mellon University.
A Generic Framework for Mining Top-k Representative Subgraph Patterns
Mining subgraph patterns is an active area of research. Till now, the focus has primarily been on mining all subgraph patterns in the given database. However, due to the exponential subgraph search space, the number…
Universally Scalable Concurrent Search Data Structures
The design of fast, scalable, and correct concurrent systems remains a notoriously difficult task. Particularly problematic is the design of fast and scalable concurrent search data structures, which lie at the core of many modern…
Neural Models for Information Retrieval
Longitudinal Tweet ID dataset for a selection of Health, Social, and Business Experiences
This data set consists of the tweet IDs collected for the propensity-score analysis of longitudinal social media messages posted by people who mention specific health, social and business domains. This data set accompanies the paper,…