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IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
An experiment in automated humorous output production
Computational humor will be needed in interfaces, no less than other cognitive capabilities. There are many practical settings where computational humor will add value. Among them...
Oliviero Stock, Carlo Strapparava
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, Henry A. Kautz
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A model of textual affect sensing using real-world knowledge
This paper presents a novel way for assessing the affective qualities of natural language and a scenario for its use. Previous approaches to textual affect sensing have employed k...
Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman, Ted Selker
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
End-user debugging for e-commerce
One of the biggest unaddressed challenges for the digital economy is what to do when electronic transactions go wrong. Consumers are frustrated by interminable phone menus, and lo...
Henry Lieberman, Earl Wagner
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Summarizing archived discussions: a beginning
This paper describes an approach to digesting threads of archived discussion lists by clustering messages into approximate topical groups, and then extracting shorter overviews, a...
Paula S. Newman, John C. Blitzer
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Tool support for designing nomadic applications
Model-based approaches can be useful when designing nomadic applications, which can be accessed through multiple interaction s. Various models and levels of abstraction can be con...
Giulio Mori, Fabio Paternò, Carmen Santoro
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Presenting route instructions on mobile devices
In this paper, we evaluate several means of presenting route instructions to a mobile user. Starting from an abstract languageindependent description of a route segment, we show h...
Christian Kray, Christian Elting, Katri Laakso, Vo...
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Intelligent dialog overcomes speech technology limitations: the SENECa example
We present a primarily speech-based user interface to a wide range of entertainment, navigation and communication applications for use in vehicles. The multimodal dialog enables t...
Wolfgang Minker, Udo Haiber, Paul Heisterkamp, Sve...
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Supporting plan authoring and analysis
Interactive tools to help users author plans or processes are essential in a variety of domains. KANAL helps users author sound plans by simulating them, checking for a variety of...
Jihie Kim, Jim Blythe