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Is het IPA een evenwichtig akkoord? Achtergrondanalyse
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Brussel : Partij van de Arbeid (PVDA),

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Perception des pères sur les répercussions de leur détention et sur l'exercice de leur paternité
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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L’objectif de ce mémoire est d’explorer les notions de paternité, les représentations&#13;des pères lors de leurs incarcérations et de capter les processus de mise en sens des&#13;pères détenus. En terme de représentations, nous entendons la manière dont les&#13;pères pensent et expérimentent leur paternité.&#13;Lors de cette étude, nous n’avons pas émis d’hypothèses, mais plutôt des objectifs de&#13;recherche afin de rendre l’étude exploratoire. Nous ne pouvons pas tirer de&#13;conclusions hâtives. La principale question de recherche était de savoir “Comment les&#13;pères incarcérés parlent de leur détention et ressentent leur paternité ?”&#13;Pour réaliser cette recherche, nous avons rencontré huit pères en détention. Les&#13;critères d’inclusion pour participer à cette étude étaient : être un homme, être un père&#13;incarcéré. Nous avons rencontré les participants et avons dirigé les rencontres vers&#13;un entretien non directif construit en parallèle aux fondements de l’analyse&#13;phénoménologique interprétative.&#13;De manière globale, nous avons constaté que la vision de la paternité est un élément&#13;constitutif de la vie carcérale. Selon les représentations des pères, le maintien d’un&#13;lien père-enfant, à travers les visites et les contacts téléphoniques, a un impact positif&#13;sur la perception de la parentalité.&#13;Néanmoins, ces constatations ne peuvent pas être généralisées vu le nombre de&#13;participants et les autres éléments pouvant impacter la perception paternelle.


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Third-party Alexa skills. A qualitative analysis for a successful B2C voice interaction in Germany
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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Voice is the most natural way of communication. Technological milestones, especially in the areas of speech recognition and natural language processing have led to the emergence of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs). &#13;The integration of IPAs into consumers’ daily lives will lead to a major change in consumer behavior. It is estimated that the number of worldwide consumers of IPAs will increase from 390 million to 1.8 billion in the period 2015 to 2021. These numbers are meaningful and speak for themselves. Companies will face new structural changes as it is predicted that voice will become the most relevant interface of future communications between companies and customers.&#13;The growing popularity and usage of IPAs raises the question of how German companies and especially innovation departments can successfully participate in this development, gain sustainable competitive advantages and position themselves in this market. &#13;Since the launch of Amazon’s IPA Alexa in September 2016 in Germany, companies can enter the voice market with an own third-party Alexa Skill. Therefore, this scientific work seeks to find out how Alexa Skills in the framework of a Service Engineer-ing approach need to be elaborated, which factors influence an individual’s adoption of an Alexa Skill and which strategic deliberations companies need to consider. &#13;Based on Haller’s (2017) process model, from a development success point of view, the following steps must systematically be passed: (1) Idea generation, (2) analysis, (3) design, (4) development, (5) tests, (6) launch, and (7) optimization. Applying Da-vis’ (1989) Technology Acceptance Model, from a usability success point of view, perceived usefulness is characterized by the variables rapidness, simplicity and naturalness, whereas perceived ease of use is influenced by Skill discovery, Skill description, Skill invocation, guidance and quality of dialogue. Regarding several strategic implications, companies can benefit the most from this billion-dollar market, if they enter the voice market as a pioneer.


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AI assistants
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ISBN: 9780262365451 0262365456 9780262542555 0262542552 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press

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An accessible explanation of the technologies that enable such popular voice-interactive applications as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. An accessible explanation of the technologies that enable such popular voice-interactive applications as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Pieraccini describes the software components that enable spoken communication between humans and computers, and explains why it’s so difficult to build machines that understand humans. He explains speech recognition technology; problems in extracting meaning from utterances in order to execute a request; language and speech generation; the dialog manager module; and interactions with social assistants and robots. Finally, he considers the next big challenge in the development of virtual assistants: building in more intelligence–enabling them to do more than communicate in natural language and endowing them with the capacity to know us better, predict our needs more accurately, and perform complex tasks with ease. -- Provided by publisher. "A brief introduction to the technology, the issues and future of virtual agents such as Siri, Alexa and the Google Assistant"--


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Oracle Digital Assistant : A Guide to Enterprise-Grade Chatbots
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ISBN: 1484254228 148425421X Year: 2020 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress,

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Use this book as an on-ramp to the development of enterprise-grade chatbots and digital assistants. It is based on real-life experience and explains everything you need to know to start building your own digital assistant (DA) using Oracle technologies. You will become familiar with the concepts involved in DA development from both a user experience and technical point of view. You will learn to create DAs using Oracle technologies, including the Oracle Digital Assistant Cloud. In the first part of the book, you will learn the basic principles of the digital assistant (AKA Chatbot) technology. You will be guided through the steps involved in designing a DA, including how to make sure that the user receives a satisfying experience when using the assistant. In the second part of the book, you will learn how to implement the digital assistant that was designed in the first part. You will begin with a basic implementation, later enhancing that implementation with agents, multi-language support, and webviews. The final part of the book adds a deep dive into custom component development with an example around sentiment analysis and speech. You will: Design digital assistants to meet business requirements Implement a great user experience for your digital assistants Translate digital assistant design into real implementations Build multi-language support into your assistants Enhance digital assistants with webviews Create custom components to extend feature sets.


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Journeys
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ISBN: 0520961463 9780520961463 9780520286085 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland, California

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More than one in three women in the United States has experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life-but what happens to them after? Journeys focuses on the desperately understudied topic of the resiliency of long-term (over 5 years) survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse. Drawing on participant observation research and interviews with women years after the end of their abusive relationships, author Susan L. Miller shares these women's trials and tribulations, and expounds on the factors that facilitated these women's success in gaining inner strength, personal efficacy, and transformation. Written for researchers, practitioners, students, and policy makers in criminal justice, sociology, and social services, Journeys shares stories that hope to inspire other victims and survivors while illuminating the different paths to resiliency and growth.


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Hey Cyba : the inner workings of a virtual personal assistant
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ISBN: 1108983146 1108976719 1108982662 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially neural network and deep learning technology, have led to rapidly improving performance in voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa. Over the next few years, capability will continue to improve and become increasingly personalised. Today's voice assistants will evolve into virtual personal assistants firmly embedded within our everyday lives. Told through the view of a fictitious personal assistant called Cyba, this book provides an accessible but detailed overview of how a conversational voice assistant works, especially how it understands spoken language, manages conversations, answers questions and generates responses. Cyba explains through examples and diagrams the neural network technology underlying speech recognition and synthesis, natural language understanding, knowledge representation, conversation management, language translation and chatbot technology. Cyba also explores the implications of this rapidly evolving technology for security, privacy and bias, and gives a glimpse of future developments. Cyba's website can be found at HeyCyba.com.


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Data-Driven Alexa Skills
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ISBN: 9781484274491 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berkeley, CA Apress :Imprint: Apress

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Design and build innovative, custom, data-driven Alexa skills for home or business. Working through several projects, this book teaches you how to build Alexa skills and integrate them with online APIs. If you have basic Python skills, this book will show you how to build data-driven Alexa skills. You will learn to use data to give your Alexa skills dynamic intelligence, in-depth knowledge, and the ability to remember. Data-Driven Alexa Skills takes a step-by-step approach to skill development. You will begin by configuring simple skills in the Alexa Skill Builder Console. Then you will develop advanced custom skills that use several Alexa Skill Development Kit features to integrate with lambda functions, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Internet data feeds. These advanced skills enable you to link user accounts, query and store data using a NoSQL database, and access real estate listings and stock prices via web APIs. What You Will Learn Set up and configure your development environment properly the first time Build Alexa skills quickly and efficiently using Agile tools and techniques Create a variety of data-driven Alexa skills for home and business Access data from web applications and Internet data sources via their APIs Test with unit-testing frameworks throughout the development life cycle Manage and query your data using the DynamoDb NoSQL database engines Who This Book Is For Developers who wish to go beyond Hello World and build complex, data-driven applications on Amazon's Alexa platform; developers who want to learn how to use Lambda functions, the Alexa Skills SDK, Alexa Presentation Language, and Alexa Conversations; developers interested in integrating with public APIs such as real estate listings and stock market prices. Readers will need to have basic Python skills.

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