This paper describes a factored discriminative spoken language understanding method suitable for real-time parsing of recognised speech. It is based on a set of logistic regression classifiers, which are used to map input utterances into dialogue acts. The proposed method is evaluated on a corpus of spoken utterances from the Public Transport Information (PTI) domain. In PTI, users can interact...

abstract a major part of iran includes mountain areas. one of the hazards which threaten these areas is the slope instability. each year the occurrence of this phenomenon causes a lot of damages to the slope lands which are exploited by man. one of the most lot hazardous of these instabilities is landslide. the goal was to investigate the causes of this process and the methods of its stabilizat...

the cities of jay in pre-islamic and yahudiya in the post islamic period were located in a plain delimited from three sides by surrounding heights. this area, referred to in historical and geographical documents as the rostāq-i jay, was the most important rural district of isfahan's khora. with rising of buyids, they decided to change the seat of power from jay to yahudiya and consequently...

The availability of high-resolution satellite images allowed new applications, especially in urban areas. In Brazil, where up-to-date information is frequently missing in data banks at Municipal, State and Federal level, the information obtained from these images could eventually fill this gap. In this paper, a case study, performed in the city of São José dos Campos, São Paulo State, Brazil is...

There has been an explosion of research on analyzing social media to map human behavior relevant to public health, such as drinking or drug use. However, it is important not only to detect the local regions where these activities occur, but also to analyze the degree of participation in them by local residents. We develop powerful new methods for fine-grained localization of activities and home...

This paper reports the design, development and feedback from the initial trial of the Taeneb City Guide project developing tourist information software on Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) handheld computers. Based on the users’ requirements for electronic tourists guides already published in the literature, the paper focuses on the three main technology features of the systems, which would give...

This paper selects TM remote sensing image of May, 2009a, land use map and land use changing data of 2008a as data materials, combined with some partly field data, it studied the land building intensity of seven counties of Binzhou city, some conceptions and related measure methods were proposed. The results showed that the land building intensity was in middle and low level contrast in nationa...

geomorphology, in some cases, provides a good platform for physical development of cities. however, physical development of cities, sometimes result in unsuitable and hazardous geomorphologic process and form. therefore, geomorphology of the region is of importance in physical planning and urban development. in this study, based on historical trends of expanding the boundaries of the malekan ci...