This paper describes the design and implementation of Paradise, a database system designed for handling GIS type of applications. The current version of Paradise, uses a client{server architecture and provides an extended{relational data model for modeling GIS applications. Paradise supports an extended version of SQL and provides a graphical user interface for querying and browsing the databas...

This paper describes the design and implementation of Paradise, a database system designed for handling GIS type of applications. The current version of Paradise, uses a client-server architecture and provides an extended-relational data model for modeling GIS applications. Paradise supports~an extended version of SQL and provides a graphical user interface for querying and browsing the databas...

Povzetek Opišemo potencialno splošno metodologijo vrednotenja učinkovitosti sistemov za dialog, imenovano ogrodje PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation). Ogrodje PARADISE omogoča izpeljavo ocene učinkovitosti sistema kot uteženo linearno kombinacijo od domene odvisnih parametrov uspešnosti naloge in cen dialoga, zajema pa model učinkovitosti sistema, katerega osnovni cilj je maksimi...

Spoken language systems (SLSs) for accessing information sources or services through the telephone network and the Internet are currently being trialed and deployed for a variety of tasks. Evaluating the usability of different interface designs requires a method for comparing performance of different versions of the SLS. Recently, Walker et al (1997) proposed PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue Sys...

We developed three systems based on automatic paraphrasing techniques to help English learners and English-language beginners. One system extracts personal error patterns in the user’s English usage. The second transforms English sentences containing the letters “l” and “r” into sentences containing fewer instances of these letters, which Japanese people have trouble pronouncing properly in Eng...

The focus of the Paradise project [1,2] is to design and implement a scalable database system capable of storing and processing massive data sets such as those produced by NASA’s EOSDIS project. This paper describes extensions to Paradise to handle the execution of queries involving collections of satellite images stored on tertiary storage. Several modifications were made to Paradise in order ...

We describe PARADISE (PARAllel DIstribution Simulator for Eden) a simulator developed to proole the execution of programs written in the parallel functional programming language Eden BLOMP96], BLOMP97]. Eden extends the lazy functional language Haskell by syntactic constructs to explicitly deene processes. Paradise is a substantial modiication of GranSim HLP94], Loi96], Loi98], a tool to study ...

We apply a PARADISE-style evaluation to a human-human dialogue corpus that was collected to support the design of a spoken dialogue system for library transactions. The book request dialogue task we investigate is informational in nature: a book request is considered successful if the librarian is able to identify a specific book for the patron. PARADISE assumes that user satisfaction can be mo...