Browsing by Author "Wade, Vincent"

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    • A framework for the delivery and evaluation of personalised multilingual information retrieval 

      Ghorab, Mohammed Rami (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)
      The amount of content provided in different languages on the Web is growing every day. The best answer to a user's query may not necessarily be available in his/her own language, but may reside in the diverse, multilingual ...

    • A technology enhanced learning framework for enterprise performance optimisation 

      Brown, Liam (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)
      Enterprise perfornnance optimisation is critical for organisations to survive and prosper in today's competitive global market-place. While this is true for all organisations, the need is even greater for the Small and ...

    • Adaptive composition of personalised learning activities 

      O'Keefe, Ian (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)
      eLearning practitioners are increasingly adopting more activity based approaches to online learning, as they move away from more traditional content centric approaches in an effort to provide their learners with more ...

    • Adaptive retrieval, composition & presentation of closed-corpus and open-corpus information 

      Steichen, Ben (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)
      A key challenge for information access systems lies in their ability to deliver information that is most suited to a user's needs, preferences and context. Personalised Information Retrieval (PIR) seeks to address this ...

    • The ADELE Corpus of Dyadic Social Text Conversations:Dialog Act Annotation with ISO 24617-2 

      Campbell, Nick; Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Saam, Christian; Su, Ketong; Clark Leigh; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Levacher, Killian; Calvo, Arturo; Cerrato, Loredana (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2018)
      Social or interactional dialog is less well described than task-based or instrumental dialog, although there is increasing interest in the genre, particularly in light of new spoken and text dialog applications which aim ...

    • ADELE: Care and companionship for independent aging 

      Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2018)
      Dialogue system technology offers interesting prospects for services to seniors living independently. A spoken or text dialog system can support services such as monitoring medication adherence, fall prevention and ...

    • ADELE: Evaluating and Benchmarking an Artificial Conversational Care Agent 

      Spillane, Brendan; Saam, Christian; Gilmartin, Emer; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Wade, Vincent (http://casforhealth.org, 2020-04-26)
      This paper provides an overview of a planned experiment to evaluate the latest iteration of ADELE, an artificial conversational agent to aid in the care of the elderly. It is being evaluated against an earlier iteration ...

    • An investigation of and a hybrid recommender system for evaluating adaptive E-Learning systems 

      Mulwa, Catherine (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)
      A key problem with research in the field of adaptive systems is the inconsistency of evaluation applied to such systems. A fact that is well established by expert evaluators is that adaptive systems cannot be evaluated as ...

    • Annotation of greeting, introduction, and leavetaking in dialogues 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Campbell, Nick; Gilmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Saam, Christian; Su, Ketong; Levacher, Killian; Cerrato, Loredana; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Clark, Leigh; Calvo, Arturo (2017)
      Dialogue act annotation aids understanding of interaction structure, and also in the design of artificial dialogue. While many dialogues can be described as task-based or instrumental, others are more interactional. These ...

    • Authoring adaptive soft skill simulations 

      Gaffney, Conor (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)
      This thesis examines the personalisation of online training simulations which are a key modern approach in computer aided education. More specifically it focuses on the difficulties involved in authoring personalised ...

    • A Classification of Biases Relating to the Production, Dissemination and Consumption of News 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent (http://critical-media.org/, 2020-04-25)
      There are many difficulties in studying bias at the production, dissemination, or consumption stages of the news pipeline. These include the difficulty of identifying high quality empirical research, the lack of agreed ...

    • Context-informed semantic interoperation 

      O'Connor, Alexander (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)
      A common trend in modern applications is the move towards more mobile, adaptive, customisable software. The evolution of software from static, invariant tools for narrow portions of a task to adaptive, open interaction ...

    • Courseware on the Fly 

      Dillon, Brian J (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1998-09)
      Third level education is at the moment experiencing a period of rapid change. Innovative teaching methods, in which new technology will figure, are required to enable universities maintain a high standard of education ...

    • Cross-Site Personalisation 

      Koidl, Kevin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)
      Web users are continuously confronted with vast amounts of information. This phenomenon is known as the information explosion and can lead to disorientation and decreased productivity as users attempt to navigate through ...

    • Data Exchange in a Component Based Workflow Environment 

      Fahey, Paul (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      There is a need to revise existing (successful) software subsystems. One can?t afford to develop a bespoke system, as done previously, so therefore `shrink wrapped solution sets? have to be realised. The problem is how ...

    • Dialog acts in greeting and leavetaking in social talk 

      Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Campbell, Nick; GIlmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Su, Ketong; Saam, Christian; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2017)
      Conversation proceeds through dialogue moves or acts, and dialog act annotation can aid the design of artificial dialog. While many dialogs are task-based or instrumental, with clear goals, as in the case of a service ...

    • Directory Enabled Smart Spaces 

      Cahill, Enda (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      Significant research and development in the area of system management has been carried out over the last number of years. This research has led to a number of proven technologies that are currently being used to manage ...

    • Domain-aware user model interoperability 

      Walsh, Edmond (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)
      Exchanging user information between multiple sources can potentially bring many benefits that enhance the user experience in software applications. Richer and more dynamic user models can be constructed allowing more ...

    • Finally a Case for Collaborative VR?: The Need to Design for Remote Multi-Party Conversations 

      Wade, Vincent (2020)
      Amid current social distancing measures requiring people to work from home, there has been renewed interest on how to effectively converse and collaborate remotely utilizing currently available technologies. On the ...

    • A flexible service-level accounting architecture for telecommunications 

      Redmond, Cliff (University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 2000-10)
      The opening up of telecommunications markets has forced a differentiation between service and basic connectivity provision; many providers have accepted that new services will become their main source of income in the ...