The ubiquity of chance discovery can be seen in many areas of application, fundamentally when there are events that are difficult to find or predict. In this paper, we present our...
This paper is about finding explicit and implicit connections between people by mining semantic associations from their email communications. Following from a sociocognitive stance...
We introduce a model for extractive meeting summarization based on the hypothesis that utterances convey bits of information, or concepts. Using keyphrases as concepts weighted by...
In this paper, we present a model for unsupervised pattern discovery using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) with graph regularization. Though the regularization can be appl...
I will elaborate some principles of ethical conduct in science that correspond to Richard Feynman’s wellknown precepts of “utter honesty” and “leaning over backwards” in...