Various challenges have emerged over several years of grammar engineering for the spoken dialogue interface to the Navy damage control simulator DC-Train and the Spoken Conversational Tutor SCoT-DC, which reviews DC-Train performance. The systems use two methods for finding interpretations for student utterances from the recognized string. First, a Gemini grammar interprets full strings into a ...

The rapid rise of digital technologies forces us to re-think our current conceptualization of Information Technologies (IT) where recent theoretical approaches like complexity, evolutionary and network theories tend to remain silent on human (managerial and organizational) choices underlying the development of digital technologies. In this Research-in-Progress paper, we first describe the Socia...

Tagging has proven to be a successful and efficient way for creating metadata through a human collective intelligence. It can be considered not only an application of individuals for expressing one’s interests, but also as a starting point for leveraging social connections through collaborative user participations. A number of users have contributed to tag resources in web sites such as Del.ici...

Abstract Background Euphorbia is the largest genus in family Euphorbiaceae with a great biological and genetic diversity. The anti-trypanosomal activity of crude extract 15 species against Trypanosoma brucei was carried out. Furthermore, DNA fingerprinting tested using ISSR SCoT markers also investigated. Results revealed highest E. officinarum L. milli Des Moul. IC 50 values < 10 ?g/mL afte...

Scalability and reusability of tutorial dialogue systems is a function of the corresponding characteristics in their component tutoring and dialogue technologies. This paper discusses an architecture for a scalable, reusable, spoken conversational tutor, SCoT. With this design we hope to minimize the efforts needed to reuse the components for implementing a tutor in any domain, large or small.