... questions about the user’s travel plans bothat the beginning of the dialogue and also after QuantitativeandQualitativeEvaluationof Darpa CommunicatorSpoken Dialogue SystemsMarilyn A. WalkerAT&T ... achieve abetter understanding of the role ofqualitative as-pects of each system’s dialogue behavior. Wequantify the extent to which the dialogue actmetrics improve our understanding by applyingthe ... 07932becky@research.att.comJulie E. BolandInstitute of Cognitive ScienceUniversity of Louisiana at LafayetteLafayette, LA 70504boland@louisiana.eduAbstractThis paper describes the application of the PARADISE evaluation...
... for CE (Wermter and Hahn, 2004) and for ATR (Wermter and Hahn, 2005), which havebeen shown to outperform several of the statistics-only metrics.3 Methods and Experiments3.1 Qualitative CriteriaBecause ... in CE and ATR) because it hasbeen shown to be the best-performing statistics-only measure for CE (cf. Evert and Krenn (2001) and Krenn and Evert (2001)) and also for ATR (seeWermter and Hahn ... Press.Stefan Evert and Brigitte Krenn. 2001. Methods forthe qualitativeevaluationof lexical association mea-sures. In ACL’01/EACL’01 – Proceedings of the39th Annual Meeting of the Association...
... curves (Figures 3 and 4), we find: (i) Examination of 50% of the datain the SLs leads to identification of between 75%(AdjN) and 80% (PNV) of the TPs. (ii) For thefirst 40% of the SLs, and lead to ... discussion of the excluded low-frequencycandidates).4 Experimental SetupAfter extraction of the base data and manual iden-tification of TPs, the AMs are applied, resulting inan ordered candidate ... instance, 80% of the full set of PNV data and 58% of the AdjN data are ha-paxes. Thus it is important to know how many (and which) true collocations there are among theexcluded low-frequency candidates.5.1...
... atoms: Ct of the C-terminus, Cc of Asp and Cd of Glu, and Og of Tyr.Positive unit charges were added at the following atoms: Nt of the N-terminus, Nf of Lys, Cf of Arg, and Ndor Ne of His ... A˚. The parameterset of charges and van der Waals radiiPARSE[24], dielectricconstants of 78.4 and 20.0, for solvent and protein, respectively, temperature of 298 K, and ionic strengthcorresponding ... stability and packing of the dimer.Parallel packing of the aromatic side chains Tyr16, Phe31,Tyr35 and Phe36 and contacts involving the side chains of Leu12, Val20, Leu28, Val29, Val33, Thr37 and...
... ICASSP.X. Zhu and G. Penn. 2005. Evaluationof sentence selection forspeech summarization. In ACL Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for MT and/ or Summariza-tion.X. Zhu and G. ... those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.ReferencesJ. Carbonell and J. Goldstein. 1998. The use of mmr, diversity-based reranking for reordering documents and producingsummaries. ... Infor-mative Coverage (IC): S2 and S9; Informative Relevance(IRV): S3 and S8; and Informative Redundancy (IRD):S4 and S7.4 Results4.1 Correlation between Human Evaluation and Original ROUGE ScoreSimilar...
... are. Belz and Reiter(2006) and Reiter and Belz (2009) describe com-parison experiments between the automatic eval-uation of system output and human (expert and non-expert) evaluationof the same ... evalua-tion of a string realisation system usually involvesstring comparisons between the output of the sys-tem and some gold standard set of strings. Typi-cally automatic metrics from the fields of ... 2009.c2009 ACL and AFNLPCorrelating Human and Automatic Evaluationof a German SurfaceRealiserAoife CahillInstitut făur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS)University of Stuttgart70174...
... communicative goal; and that corpus texts are often not of high enough qual-ity to form a realistic test.2.2 Automatic evaluationof generated textsin MT and SummarisationThe MT and document summarisation ... algorithms, and data sets. BLEU and re-lated metrics work by comparing the output of anMT system to a set of reference (‘gold standard’)translations, and in principle this kind of evalua-tion ... point of comparison. This methodologywas first used in NLG in the mid-1990s by Coch(1996) and Lester and Porter (1997), and contin-ues to be popular today.Other, extrinsic, types of human evaluationsof...
... structure and navigation,readability of text, appropriateness of graphics and icons, clarity and quality of information,suitability of external links, and clarity and perceived motivating and discussion ... environment.A variety of data collection protocols and tools were developed to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Pre and post tests related to HIV/AIDS and nutrition will allow for quantitative comparison ... formative evaluationof the Web site have a variedteaching background in terms of level and content and are focusing their postgraduate studieson the design, development andevaluationof technology-based...
... pre-ceding the a-helix and the C-terminal b-strand of RBP and the hyper-variable regions of Fab: loops 53–56 and 100–103 and the short helix 28–32 of chain H and loops 31–36 and 53–56 of chain L. The ... exposed, in the region of the loops that con-nect b-strands A and B, C and D and E and F and surround the entrance of the b-barrel at the openend of the cavity. As a result of evolutionaryrestraints ... b-strands H and F. To form the tetramer, two dimers associate backto back, mainly through hydrophobic contactsbetween residues of the loops formed by b-strands A and B and b-strands G and H....
... theassociations of dementia severity would be broader, span-ning more dimensions of caregiver quality of life.Stronger endorsements of spirituality and faith and of benefits of caregiving was ... benefits of caregiving (p 0.05)). In con-trast, there were few associations of duration of being acaregiver and caregiver quality -of- life scores. Non-whiteethnicity of both the caregiver andof ... dementia and the development of caregiverstress and burden [5]. Families often report that behavio-ral disturbances are the primary source of stress and theprimary cause for institutionalization of...
... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:37 http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/37Page 3 of 11(page number not for citation purposes)Review of quality of life measures and domains of activity ... efficacy and effectiveness of treatments and interventions designed to improve quality of life.ConclusionFace and content validity of the PLA was determined to behighly acceptable and relevant ... activities offers ameasure of one aspect of quality of life.2. Severity of illness restricts participation in favorite activ-ities thus impacting one's overall quality of life.3. Level of symptom...
... Africa and 3Department of Public and Community Health, University of Maryland, College Park* Corresponding author AbstractThe objective of the study was to conduct a process and outcomes evaluation ... a standard-ized intercept interview.Delegate SurveyThe delegate survey, written in English and composed of both qualitativeandquantitative questions, was devel-oped by the study team and ... 1University of Washington, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, Washington, 2School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria,...
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... consumption and performanceare a function of the characteristics of the workload and thearchitectural elements, and thus, estimating these metrics isnot an ordinary task.Given the wide range of platform ... platform options and softwareoptimizations, designers need to verify their design choicesto find the proper platform and software that satisfy a givenset of requirements. Measurement of the actual ... the hit ratio of the applicationunder evaluation, firstly it generates a random number withuniform distribution between 0 and 1 and then comparesit to the MAM hit ratio. If the random number...
... predictable and high-performance system, even in theface of changing operational conditions and workloads.(iii) The empirical evaluationof RACE’s scalability as thenumber of nodes and applications ... middleware, and (2) design-timeversus run-time QoS configuration, optimization, analysis, and evaluationof constraints, such as timing, memory, and CPU.2.1. Overview of conventional and QoS-enabledDOC ... time and network bandwidth withinbounded delay. Moreover, in open DRE systems like theMMS mission, input workload affects utilization of systemresources and QoS of applications. Utilization of...