Statistically speaking:

Talking to machines (statistically speaking)

Statistical methods have long been the dominant approach in speech recognition and probabilistic modelling in ASR is now a mature technology. The use of statistical methods in other areas of spoken dialogue is however more recent and rather less mature. This paper reviews spoken dialogue systems from a statistical modelling perspective. The complete system is first presented as a partially obse...

Talkin' bout a revolution (statistically speaking) [Invited Talk]

This talk will describe new methods for generating Natural Language in interactive systems – methods which are similar to planning approaches, but which use statistical machine learning to develop adaptive NLG components. Employing statistical models of users, generation contexts, and of Natural Languages themselves, has several potentially beneficial features: the ability to train models on re...

Statistically Speaking: Evaluation of the Becoming a Man (B.A.M.) Program in Chicago

Statistically Speaking: Distinguishing Misinformation from Effective Intervention in the Court Systemâ•Žs Treatment of PTSD-Affected Juvenile Sex Offenders

Statistically Hiding Sets

Zero-knowledge set is a primitive introduced by Micali, Rabin, and Kilian (FOCS 2003)which enables a prover to commit a set to a verifier, without revealing even the size of the set.Later the prover can give zero-knowledge proofs to convince the verifier of membership/non-membership of elements in/not in the committed set.We present a new primitive called Statistically Hiding Se...