China’s rise: what about a transatlantic dialog?

One Year of Contender: What Have We Learned about Assessing and Tuning Industrial Spoken Dialog Systems?

A lot. Since inception of Contender, a machine learning method tailored for computerassisted decision making in industrial spoken dialog systems, it was rolled out in over 200 instances throughout our applications processing nearly 40 million calls. The net effect of this data-driven method is a significantly increased system performance gaining about 100,000 additional automated calls every mo...

What Happened to the Transatlantic Capital Market Relations?

This paper investigates the capital market relations between Euroland and the USA from 1990 until 2006. Formally based on the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP), backward recursive estimations establish a long-run equilibrium between European and US government bond yields. Since the mid-1990s though, cointegration can only be achieved additionally considering the exchange rate. The reason pro...

What the Robot Sees & Understands Facilitates Dialog

The particular applications that interest us include search and rescue robotics, security, elder/disabled care or assistance, or service robotics. In all of these application areas, visual perception and internal representations play a pivotal role in how humans and robots communicate. In general, visual perception plays an important role in communicating information amongst humans. It is typic...

Health System Resilience: What Are We Talking About? A Scoping Review Mapping Characteristics and Keywords

Background Health systems are based on 6 functions that need to work together at all times to effectively deliver safe and quality health services. These functions are vulnerable to shocks and changes; if a health system is unable to withstand the pressure from a shock, it may cease to function or collapse. The concept of resilience has been introduced with the goal of strengthening healt...

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?