... questions about the user’s travel plans both
at the beginning of the dialogue and also after
QuantitativeandQualitativeEvaluation of Darpa Communicator
Spoken Dialogue Systems
Marilyn A. Walker
AT&T ... and that there
were four groups of performers with sites 3,2,1,4
in the top group (listed by average user satisfac-
tion), sites 4,5,9,6 in a second group, and sites 8
and 7 defining a third and ... standard and tools were used by all
sites to collect a set of core metrics for making
cross system comparisons. The core metrics were
developed during a workshop of the Evaluation
Committee and...
... is objective and detached from the
observers, and that this reality can be
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Language program evaluation:
Quantitative or qualitative approach? ... three teaching methods: the
traditional method, the audio-lingual methods
and the method combining functional skills with
grammar. The traditional method group was the
control group and the other ... approaches: positivistic /quantitative and naturalistic /qualitative. This article will attempt to
review these two major paradigms by (i) giving the definition of each paradigm and presenting its
logic...
... background and target job.
3. Customize the answers where necessary to your vocabu-
lary, background, and target job. (Just don’t change them
radically; each answer is carefully designed and tested ... education and training
prepared you for the job?
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training taught me how to do the job properly. Before I re
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ally knew what my job entailed, ... deal, and I be-
lieve in the value of education. I, of course, went on to
learn more, both formally and on the job, that applies di
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rectly to my field. I’m glad I started out in one area and...
... rules of suits for men
and dresses for women have, by and large, fallen by the way
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side. Today most companies, large and small, have loosened
their dress codes. To the job candidate, this raises ... deal, and I be-
lieve in the value of education. I, of course, went on to
learn more, both formally and on the job, that applies di
-
rectly to my field. I’m glad I started out in one area and ...
____________, which I find very valuable to my ongoing
job performance and general knowledge.
OR
With the demands of keeping up with my job while
interviewing, I haven’t signed up for anything...
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stability and toxicity of PANs, and further investigated
the sustained release behavior in vivo of drug loading in
PANs. PA was rstly synthesized and characterized by
FT-IR and
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H NMR, and then ... normal diet, and water
was provided ad libitum. Animals were observed care-
fully for the onset of any signs of toxicity and monitored
for changes in food intake and body weight at 1, 8, and
15 ... protons at 1.8–2.2 ppm and B
is that of OH protons and H-1 to H-6 protons of pullulan
moiety observed at more than 3.5 ppm.
Preparation and characterization of PANs and PA/EPI
Nanoparticles...
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and its limitations. Structure and manage your market-
ing and distribution strategy accordingly.
82 How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae
Distribution and Marketing Checklist
This ... CV paper in your field.
Correspondence for the Application Process and the Job Search 83
• Use that person’s name and title, and spell both
correctly.
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Cats in Thai Arts were riveting and captivating works of artistic expression. For that reason and the
obvious cachet that your publication enjoys in photography and art,...
... Introduction
Research and development on automatic and man-
ual evaluation of summarization systems have been
mainly focused on content coverage (Lin and Hovy,
2003; Nenkova and Passonneau, 2004; ... matches similar BEs, and finally scores
them.
Both ROUGE and BE have been implemented
and included in the ROUGE/BE evaluation toolkit
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which has been used as the default evaluation tool
in the ... evaluating with
ROUGE/BE and Pyramid, DUC and TAC also asked
human judges to score every candidate summary
with regard to its content, readability, and overall re-
sponsiveness.
DUC and TAC defined linguistic...
... Health
Reassessment of TCDD and Related Compounds
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Division on Earth and Life Studies
Health Risks from
Dioxin and
Related Compounds
Evaluation of the EPA ... to sources and exposures to TCDD
and other dioxins in the environment, and Part II contains detailed reviews
of scientific information on the health effects of TCDD, other dioxins, and
DLCs. The ... EPA, Food and Drug Admin-
istration, Department of Agriculture, Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease
Registry, National Center for Health Statistics, and National Toxicology Pro-
gram and from...
... GAAP, and US tax accounting methods
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IFRS, US GAAP, and
US tax accounting
methods a detailed
comparative
assessment
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and transportation costs, other
than costs to distribute directly
to a customer. In addition,
storage and handling costs
(including offsite storage and
handling not at a ... deferral provisions
under Đ455 and Đ456 do not
contain book conformity rules.
Specific methods are
prescribed for advance
payments for tax purposes
and those methods will not
change as a...
... Phrases from Large-Scale Texts:
A Hybrid Approach and Its Automatic Evaluation
Kuang-hua Chen and Hsin-Hsi Chen
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan University ... learned writing; and 4) N: adventure and Western
fiction. The Categories of A, G, J and N are named from
respective categories of the Brown Corpus. Each
Category consists of 16 files and each file ... 4 shows the chunker has more than 98% chunk
correct rate and 94% sentence correct rate in outside test,
and 99% chunk correct rate and 97% sentence correct
rate in inside test. Note that once...
... automatic
evaluation methods: BLEU, NIST and a DP-based
method. The target system evaluated was TDMT.
We carried out two experiments: an utterance unit
evaluation and a test set unit evaluation. ... to evaluation.
Such an approach requires large costs and a long
evaluation time. Therefore, automatization of this
method remains an important issue to solve.
Several automatic evaluationmethods ... evalua-
tion methods.
Section 2 explains the translation paired com-
parison method, and Section 3 introduces the pro-
posed evaluation scheme. Section 4 describes sev-
eral automatic evaluation methods...
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tralia, and Asia, Wiley is globally committed to developing and marketing
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ven by consumer supply and demand, which is primarily dependent on
events and seasonal factors.
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corn, you can sell your products ... each other based on a number of factors such as eco-
nomic growth (present and future), interest rates, and supply and de-
mand. Most major currencies are quoted against the U.S. dollar.
Therefore,...