Preface: Styling Sensory History

Preface: the History of This Volume

User modeling is now approaching its second decade. Its exact age, however, is difficult to determine. Was it born in 1978, when Allen, Cohen, and Perrault started to publish their seminal papers on dialog processing in natural language systems based on Searle's theory of speech acts and the speaker's intentions behind it? Or was it in 1979, when Elain Rich reported on her GRUNDY system, which ...

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Regularization is model styling

Regularization is a method used in mathematics and statistics to deal with insufficient information. The reader must supply additional information in the form of an operator. From where is this operator to come, and what does it mean? It amounts to us, as practitioners, specifying a “style” of model. Where the model is a signal or an image, it amounts to specifying one weighting function in phy...

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PREFACE