We report on a method for utilising corpora collected in natural settings. It is based on distilling (re-writing) natural dialogues to elicit the type of dialogue that would occur if one the dialogue participants was a computer instead of a human. The method is a complement to other means such asWizard of Oz-studies and un-distilled natural dialogues. We present the distilling method and guidel...

This paper studies determinants of drinking behavior and formation of subjective thresholds of acceptable drinking behavior using a sample of students in a major Irish University. We find evidence of strong associations between amounts of alcohol students consume and drinking of their fathers and older siblings. In contrast, we find little evidence of impacts of other non-drinking aspects of fa...

The conceptual framework of a new system, Collaborative Refinery, is motivated by a scenario involving the creation of an FAQ. The scenario introduces the concepts of collecting, culling, organizing and distilling. Distilling is a specialized form of collaborative authoring with support for content selection and genre. The Web-based user interface supporting access to the four conceptual functi...

In the past twenty years the Internet has grown, from text -entry green-screen communication between the military, a few universities and res earchers, to a visually-based mass communication and advertising medium and even a tool for political activists. This growth has been ad hoc, spectacular and peripatetic. The advent of the GUI into mainstream computing was the point at which the Internet ...

Model distillation compresses a trained machine learning model, such as a neural network, into a smaller alternative such that it could be easily deployed in a resource limited setting. Unfortunately, this requires engineering two architectures: a student architecture smaller than the first teacher architecture but trained to emulate it. In this paper, we present a distillation strategy that pr...

 Strategic planning aims to harness a company’s core competencies to capitalise on identified environmental opportunities and minimise or avoid environmental threats.  As marketing managers bridge the gap between company, customers, competitors and channels of distribution, they not only manage their marketing strategies, but also tend to be highly influential in business and corporate strate...