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Douglas W. Oard


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First Steps Toward Linking Dialogues: Mediating Between Free-text Questions and Pre-recorded Video Answers 2004 9 pages
Authors:  Sudeep Gandhe; Andrew Gordon; Anton Leuski; David R. Traum; Douglas W. Oard; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARINA DEL REY
The full text of this report is available for sale.Pre-recorded video segments can be very compelling for a variety of immersive training purposes, including providing answers to questions in after- action reviews. Answering questions fluently using pre-recorded video poses challenges, however. When humans interact, answers are constructed after questions are posed. When answers are pre-recorded, even if a correct answer exists in a library of video segments, the answer may be phrased in a way that is not coherent ...


Science and Technology Text Mining Basic Concepts 2003 28 pages
Authors:  Paul Losiewicz; Douglas W. Oard; Donald N. Kostoff; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY
The full text of this report is available for sale.This literature review presents a broad array of techniques that are becoming available to mine textual data. The review initially presents a three- function (i.e., data collection, data warehousing, and data exploitation) text mining architecture consisting of a six-step text mining process (i.e., source selection, text retrieval, information extraction, data storage, data mining, and presentation). It then presents some of the most widely used data and text mining techniques, including ...


On the Integrated Scheduling of Hardkill and Softkill Assets Using Dynamic Programming 18 JUL 94 40 pages
Authors:  Douglas W. Oard; Sheldon I. Wolk; Anthony Ephremides; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC
The full text of this report is available for sale.The problem of integrated employment of cruise missile defenses by a single ship is considered in this report. Two defensive systems, surface to air missiles and chaff, are examined, and a mathematical model of their performance is developed. An optimal scheduling problem is posed using this model, and a dynamic programming solution is developed. The computational complexity of this solution is beyond the capability of current computer facilities, therefore several ...


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