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VL
2002
IEEE
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A Visual Framework for Modelling with Heterogeneous Notations
There is a range of modelling notations, both textual and diagrammatic, whose semantics are based on first-order predicate logic. This paper presents a visual framework for organ...
Jean Flower, John Howse, John Taylor, Stuart Kent
VL
2002
IEEE
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Novice Comprehension of Programs Using Task-Specific and Non-Task-Specific Constructs
This study examines the comprehension and modification by novices of programs written with taskspecific and non-task-specific constructs. Teachers who write programs for use in th...
Alec Engebretson, Susan Wiedenbeck
VL
2002
IEEE
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Virtual Reality Interaction: The Characteristic Pattern Approach
We merge the Pictorial Computing Laboratory (PCL) approach to WIMP interaction with the Interaction Locus approach to structuring visual spaces as a step toward the definition of ...
Augusto Celentano, Daniela Fogli, Piero Mussio, Fa...
VL
2002
IEEE
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First Steps in Programming: A Rationale for Attention Investment Models
Research into the cognitive aspects of programming originated in the study of professional programmers (whether experts or students). Even “end-user” programmers in previous s...
Alan F. Blackwell
VL
2002
IEEE
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Reasoning about Many-to-Many Requirement Relationships in Spreadsheets
To help improve the reliability of spreadsheets created by end users, we are working to allow users to communicate the purpose and other underlying information about their spreads...
Laura Beckwith, Margaret M. Burnett, Curtis R. Coo...
VL
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Visually Customizing Inference Rules About Apples and Oranges
We have been working on a unit system for end-user spreadsheets that is based on the concrete notion of units of the abstract concept of types. In previous work, we defined such ...
Margaret M. Burnett, Martin Erwig
LEC
2002
IEEE
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Building Large Scale Ontology Networks
Adoptable, high performing, large scale ontologies that can be extended to support multi-media play a crucial role in building effective content and knowledge management systems a...
Vasudeva Varma
LEC
2002
IEEE
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A Deterministic Finite State Automaton for the Oriya Negative Verbal Forms
This paper discusses the processing of negative verbal forms in Oriya in a deterministic Finite State Automaton. A morphologically agglutinative language like Oriya has ‘phrasal...
Kalyanamalini Sahoo
LEC
2002
IEEE
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Adapting Question Answering Techniques to the Web
The Web has emerged as a huge information repository that can be used for various knowledge based applications, an important one being Question Answering (QA). The paper discusses...
Jignashu Parikh, M. Narasimha Murty
LEC
2002
IEEE
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The VOLEM Project : a Framework for the Construction of Advanced Multilingual Lexicons
We report in this short document the results of a Regional European project carried out on Spanish, Catalan, Occitan and French whose aim is to design a lexical knowledge base whe...
Ana Fernandez, Gloria Vazquez, Patrick Saint-Dizie...