Time-offset interaction is a new technology that enables conversational interaction with a person who is not present, using pre-recorded video statements. Statements were recorded by Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor, talking about his personal experiences before, during and after the Holocaust. Participants interacted with the statements through a “Wizard of Oz” system, where live operators...

Background and Objectives: It was established that eating experience may affect patients emotionally. Acknowledging the role and understanding the basis of patients’ emotions in their food consumption may assist in identifying their nutritional status as well as their satisfaction with foodservice. To date, there are limited studies focusing on patients’ food-related emotional ...

Event extraction is a very important task for research textual information. This task can be applied to various types of written text, e.g. news messages, blogs, manuscripts, and user reviews for products or services. In this paper, we report results about an experiment in correlating Event-based lived experience patterns obtained from machine reading, and ranking derived from open rating systems.

Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories has been designing, developing, testing, and evaluating spoken language understanding systems in several unique operational environments over the past five years. Through these experiences we have encountered numerous challenges in making each system become an integral part of a user’s operations. In this paper, we discuss these challenges and ...

A complex challenge facing those involved in crisis management relates to how to manage cascading effects in crisis situations. This paper provides a practice-based insight into the use of General Morphological Analysis (GMA), a non-quantified modelling method that can enable a shared understanding of the various interdependencies involved in cascading crises, by creating a conceptual model of ...