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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to conversational spoken language understanding and surveys recent advances in conversational AI. It guides the reader through the history, current advancements, and future of natural language understanding (NLU) in human-computer interactions. To this end, the book is structured in seven chapters: Introduction to Natural Language Understanding lays the foundation by tracing the evolution of NLU from early human communication to modern human-computer interactions. Prerequisites and Glossary for Natural Language Understanding then serves as a foundational resource, consolidating essential prerequisites and key terminologies relevant across the book. Single-Turn Natural Language Understanding looks at Single-Turn NLU, focusing on tasks that involve interpreting and processing user inputs in a single interaction, while Multi-Turn Natural Language Understanding moves on systems for extended interactions with users and explores techniques for managing dialogues, using context and integrating external knowledge bases. Next, Evaluating Natural Language Understanding discusses the annotation of datasets and various performance assessment methods, covering different levels of understanding from intent recognition to slot filling and domain classification. Applications and Case Studies in Natural Language Understanding subsequently shows real-world applications of NLU in finance, medicine, and law. Eventually Challenges, Conclusions and Future Directions explores the core obstacles hindering the advancement of NLU, including ambiguity, domain adaptation, data scarcity, and ethical concerns. By understanding these challenges, this chapter highlights the ongoing work needed to advance NLU. This book mainly targets researchers, PhD students, and professionals who are entering this field and look for a state-of-the-art introduction to NLU applied in conversational systems such as chatbots, large language models, or educational systems.

Dana Allison Tessier is a thirty-something woman depressed over the loss of an opportunity to open an extension office for Walk the Life Headhunters Agency and the recent death of her Aunt Meg, her only living family. Her best friend, Amy Bickerton, reminds her of the promise to “let go and let God.” God calls her to quit her job, sell her home, and find where He’s leading her. Amy reminds her to keep her eyes and ears open to His calling. Dana is summoned for jury duty. The book opens at a truck stop, Bobbie-Jo’s Truck Stop. A waitress asks her to share her table because Dana has the only other place to sit. A tall, good-looking man, Jerrod, sits down. He makes small talk. She talks for a while before leaving. Dana travels through each village and town, looking for the place God is wanting her to be. She gets tired of not finding that special place. She settles down in a town, rents a room, finds a job in a card shop, and makes friends that stay in her life for the rest of her life. Certain events occur that she feels are from God telling her this isn’t where she belongs. She turns around and heads home. The adventure doesn’t end there. Read the rest of Dana’s story and find out how her life turns for the better.

177 Lee/BETA''S YEAR OF FIRSTS Beta sits beside her mother after she has just died. Beta is thirteen. Her mother stares off into space as wondering what to say. She goes to live at a foster home. When her mother first dies, Beta hears words of wisdom from her mother. After all the firsts, Beta no longer hears words of wisdom from her mother. 111

Two compassionately subversive plays about identity, by Young Jean Lee, a Korean American playwright whose work is groundbreaking, humorous and often thrillingly transgressive. In Straight White Men, it''s Christmas Eve, and Ed has gathered his three adult sons to celebrate with matching pyjamas, trash-talking, and Chinese takeaway. But when a question they can''t answer interrupts their seasonal cheer, they are forced to confront their own identities. Raucous, surprising and fearless, Straight White Men takes an outside look at the traditional father/son narrative, shedding new light on a story we think we know all too well. It had its UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2021, following US productions including a Broadway run that made Lee the first Asian-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. In Untitled Feminist Show, six charismatic stars of the theatre, dance, cabaret and burlesque worlds come together in an exhilaratingly irreverent, nearly wordless celebration of a fluid and limitless sense of identity. Untitled Feminist Show isn''t a show about feminism - it is a feminist show. It premiered at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 2012 before transferring to the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. ''Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation'' New York Times

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Guided gift journal to record family ancestry

Have fun journaling with this unique themed diary! 6x9 paperback book features blank lined pages, including a line at the top of each for the date. Makes a great gift!

2021 Honorable Mention Recipient of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895–1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping to create works that would appeal to a diverse audience, had to formulate a method for making the “other half” laugh. In magazine fiction, vaudeville, and the comic strip, the oppressive conditions of the poor and the marginalized were portrayed unflinchingly, yet with a distinctly comic sensibility that grew out of caricature and ethnic humor. Author Jean Lee Cole analyzes Progressive Era popular culture, providing a critical angle to approach visual and literary humor about ethnicity—how avenues of comedy serve as expressions of solidarity, commiseration, and empowerment. Cole’s argument centers on the comic sensibility, which she defines as a performative act that fosters feelings of solidarity and community among the marginalized. Cole stresses the connections between the worlds of art, journalism, and literature and the people who produced them—including George Herriman, R. F. Outcault, Rudolph Dirks, Jimmy Swinnerton, George Luks, and William Glackens—and traces the form’s emergence in the pages of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s Journal-American and how it influenced popular fiction, illustration, and art. How the Other Half Laughs restores the newspaper comic strip to its rightful place as a transformative element of American culture at the turn into the twentieth century.

The end of 4th grade marks a huge milestone in a young person''s life; and this MY 4TH GRADE STORY guided journal will help them capture all of the special memories and milestones of their 4TH grade school years before moving on to 5th grade! Filled with over 100 pages of interview-style question and answer prompts and plenty of lined space to record: School statistics Favorite and least favorite classes, teachers, and subjects Details of school events, sports, dances, etc Memories of friends, holidays, and milestones Current entertainment, food, and social media favorites Hopes and dreams for the future Pages for photos and memorabilia along with autographs Once completed, this book will make a lasting keepsake and an heirloom for future generations! Makes a wonderful gift for any occasion!

If Pennsylvania is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

If Tennessee is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

If Kentucky is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

If Kansas is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

If Georgia is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

If Alaska is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

The Boston Terrier Life Is The Only Life For Me 8.5x11-inch notebook lets everyone know how much you love Boston Terrier dogs! Paperback with 120 pages college-ruled page. Perfect for any age, whether for school, work or at home!

The French Bulldog Life Is The Only Life For Me 8.5x11-inch notebook lets everyone know how much you love bulldog dogs! Paperback with 120 pages college-ruled page. Perfect for any age, whether for school, work or at home!

Who doesn''t love both sloths AND donuts?! This fun novelty print 7x10 wide ruled composition notebook has an adorable sloth and donut print on the front and back. Perfect for school, work or home; also makes a great gift!

"Brother, Tell Me Your Life Story" is a guided journal with questions on every page for a brother to answer for a silbling. This large, 8.5x11 book offers plenty of lined space for brothers to write about their childhoods, their likes and dislikes, and memories along with their hopes and dreams. Each page provides space to write the date; and most pages included several prompts to really help draw out answers. Makes a great gift and a lasting keepsake!

"You did not choose Me but I chose you..." John 15:16 The King of Kings has spoken. You were meant to be in the family of God and embrace his essence now and forever! Jean Lee has taken her place as a child of the King. She is an ordinary person who has been radically changed by the love of Jesus Christ. She has peeked behind the veil in her journey of faith and discovered God''s ever abiding presence through her family''s triumphs, struggles, pain, and joy. Living the Legacy recounts God inspired true short stories. Jean Lee''s purpose is to present a unique style of the Gospel to world through Living the Legacy. What readers are saying about Living the Legacy... "Living the Legacy reassures us that God''s mercy is new every morning. An encouraging message." T Sampson "A refreshing devotional. Jean''s personal experiences become mini parables that magnify God''s biblical truths. Very well written and heartwarming." D Denton "Well pleased. Appropriate for all ages. Would make a wonderful gift for any occasion!" B Benjamin God chose you for a time like this. He desires for you to experience His abundance by living His Legacy.

Hunter, Ava, and Maxwell grow taller and I grow wiser in this second book of the Lexi''s Triplets Series. The kids learn to walk and talk, while I learn important life lessons from my canine friends-and even Granny. Read about the mayhem we run into during my quest to become the best furry parent I can be to my litter of three. This book has black and white pictures in the interior.

When Ed and his three adult sons come together to celebrate Christmas, they enjoy cheerful trash-talking, pranks, and takeout Chinese. Then they confront a problem that even being a happy family can’t solve: When identity matters, and privilege is problematic, what is the value of being a straight white man?

Chinese Women Business Leaders - Seven Principles of Leadership includes seven women who represent the characteristics of ShEOs in the wave of Chinese economic reform. Their unique life stories are also reflections of changes in Chinese society. These women have each played a distinctive role In China''s rapid emergence. Reform and opening up has brought more opportunities than ever before to Chinese women, though along with these opportunities come some questions and challenges. The fetters and shackles of tradition have been shattered. A path for self-actualization has opened up. Women in mainland China have experienced great changes, and struggled with conflicts between traditional heritage and modern values. Ever since reform and opening up in 1978, the rapid emergence of women in leadership roles in business has paralleled significant upheavals in the Chinese business landscape. - Offers a new perspective on leadership using examples from successful woman leaders in Chinese business - Includes seven unique case interviews with successful women leaders in China - Provides an overview of China''s business environment over the past 30 years and the challenges unique to entrepreneurs working in China

Acclaimed playwright and director Young Jean Lee transforms her life-long struggle with Christianity into an exuberant church service. Both celebratory and confrontational, CHURCH will test the expectations of religious and non-religious alike—looking deep into why we believe what we believe.

The Land Speaks explores the intersections of two vibrant fields, oral history and environmental studies. The fourteen oral histories collected here range North America, examining wilderness and cities, farms and forests, rivers and arid lands. The contributors argue that oral history can capture communication from nature and provide tools for environmental problem solving.

"Sly, weird, and thoroughly winning . . . Bracing, funny, and, yes, consoling."—The New York Times "Young Jean Lee will give you whiplash. Her ability to stake out aesthetic territory and then abruptly abandon it makes her unpredictable; her tendency to excel at each new genre makes her terrifying. In the enormously touching cabaret-style We''re Gonna Die, Lee jettisons everything that has armored this au courant young playwright against the world. . . . Lee purchases our hearts with her bravery''s own coin."—Time Out New York Inspired by her personal experiences with despair and loneliness, the Obie Award–winning playwright-provocateur and her band Future Wife create a life-affirming show that anyone can perform, about the one thing everyone has in common: we''re all gonna die. Each book includes a CD of all six songs and eight monologues performed by David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Adam Horowitz, and others. Young Jean Lee has been hailed as "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by Time Out New York. She has written and directed nine shows in New York with Young Jean Lee''s Theater Company and toured her work to over twenty cities around the world. Her other plays include The Shipment, Lear, and Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. Awards include two Obies, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Doris Duke Artist Award.

With a bit of reluctance, Jeffrey listens to his little sister, Jasmine, trying predicament as she gives an account of what happened to her. Jasmine describes her heart rendering incident: losing her grandmother''s pearl necklace which is her secret that she is hiding from her parents. Jeffrey identifies with the feeling of "messing up" gets caught up in his sister''s anguish and despair. He blurts out "ouch" as an emotional release to his sister situation. At first the predicament seems as easy as 1-2-3. Jeffrey probes to find answers to resolve Jasmine''s questions that could have been overlooked. Using deductive reasoning proves to be helpful, but it does not reveal enough clues for solving the problem. Can a cover up be an alternative to his sister''s predicament? Who will take the blame if the cover up is exposed? Will Jeffrey take the blame for Jasmine? Based on his past history of squandering his allowance, can Jeffrey get his parent''s approval of starting his own business? Will his business aid him in making enough profit to purchase his desired treasure: that special watch? Jeffrey and Jasmine have dilemmas. They form an alliance to solve their problems to avert getting into hot water with their parents. Discover how Jeffrey and Jasmine maneuver to handle the turning point that is unavoidable. Will the turning point lead to an unexpected surprise?

What would you do if both parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer''s?At the time of their diagnosis, Ed Church struggles to his feet, yelling, "How dare you use the A. word with me," while Ibby wags her finger at the doctor scolding, "Shame on you."They protect each other, Ibby by asserting, "We''re not leaving our home," and Ed reassuring, "We''re just fine."About his driving Ed defends, "I''m an excellent driver, I''ve never had an accident." When their daughter, Rosie, finds dings in Ed''s car, he dismisses, "Someone must have bumped into me."After Rosie moves them to assisted living, convinced they are on a second honeymoon, they break the news, "We''ve decided not to have more children."In the late stages, they politely shake Rosie''s hand, inquiring, "Now, who are you?"In ALZHEIMER''S DAUGHTER readers journey with Rosie Church from her first suspicions that something is awry to nearly a decade later as she is honored to hold Ed and Ibby''s hands when they draw their final breaths.

''Post-black'' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social and cultural expectations of blackness of the past and moving beyond the conventional binary of black and white. Reflecting this multiplicity of perspectives, the plays in this collection explode the traditional ways of representing black families on the American stage, and create new means to consider the interplay of race, with questions of class, gender, and sexuality. They engage and critique current definitions of black and African-American identity, as well as previous limitations placed on what constitutes blackness and black theatre. Written by the emerging stars of American theatre such as Eisa Davis and Marcus Gardley, the plays explore themes as varied as family and individuality, alienation and gentrification, and reconciliation and belonging. They demonstrate a wide-range of formal and structural innovations for the American theatre, and reflect the important ways in which contemporary playwrights are expanding the American dramatic canon with new and diverse means of representation. Edited by two leading US scholars in black drama, Harry J. Elam Jr (Stanford) and Douglas A. Jones Jr (Princeton), this cutting edge anthology gathers together some of the most exciting new American plays, selected by a rigorous academic backbone and explored in depth by supporting critical material.

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi''s Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley''s lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee''s Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall''s Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn''s Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc''s The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.