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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Resilience through technology adoption: merging the old and the new in Iraq
Little attention has been given to how citizens use technology to be resilient when their country is at war. We report on an ethnographic interview study of how technology was ado...
Gloria Mark, Ban Al-Ani, Bryan Semaan
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Do summaries help?
We describe a task-based evaluation to determine whether multi-document summaries measurably improve user performance when using online news browsing systems for directed research...
Kathleen McKeown, Rebecca J. Passonneau, David K. ...
BMCBI
2008
116views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Structuring an event ontology for disease outbreak detection
Background: This paper describes the design of an event ontology being developed for application in the machine understanding of infectious disease-related events reported in natu...
Ai Kawazoe, Hutchatai Chanlekha, Mika Shigematsu, ...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Web-assisted annotation, semantic indexing and search of television and radio news
The Rich News system, that can automatically annotate radio and television news with the aid of resources retrieved from the World Wide Web, is described. Automatic speech recogni...
Mike Dowman, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham, B...
SDM
2010
SIAM
256views Data Mining» more  SDM 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
The Application of Statistical Relational Learning to a Database of Criminal and Terrorist Activity
We apply statistical relational learning to a database of criminal and terrorist activity to predict attributes and event outcomes. The database stems from a collection of news ar...
B. Delaney, Andrew S. Fast, W. M. Campbell, C. J. ...