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Talking Assistant – Car Repair Shop Demo

In this video paper we present the Talking Assistant and the STAIRS project, and how the two interact. The Talking Assistant is a device for interacting in ubiquitous computing environments. It features sensors, wireless communications and simple local speech recognition. The STAIRS project concerns browsing of structured hypertext documents in audio. One key feature of STAIRS is, that beside s...

The Mom and Pop Editorial Shop.

ONE afternoon early in 1981, Burke Judd strolled melded well with the federal requirement that my editorial work be conducted in evenings and on weekends. into my office at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Burke had reThus was born what Mike Resnick later christened the Mom and Pop Editorial Shop. cently ascended from Vice President to President of the Genetics S...

D-Theory: Talking about Talking about Trees

Linguists, including computational linguists, have always been fond of talking about trees. In this paper, we outline a theory of linguistic structure which talks about talking about trees; we call this theory Description theory (D-theory). While important issues must be resolved before a complete picture of D-theory emerges (and also before we can build programs which utilize it), we believe t...

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