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CORR
2008
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
Cross-concordances: terminology mapping and its effectiveness for information retrieval
The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research funded a major terminology mapping initiative, which found its conclusion in 2007. The task of this terminology mapping initi...
Philipp Mayr, Vivien Petras
SOCIALCOM
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Structural Predictors of Tie Formation in Twitter: Transitivity and Mutuality
-- New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the formati...
Scott A. Golder, Sarita Yardi
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Facetnet: a framework for analyzing communities and their evolutions in dynamic networks
We discover communities from social network data, and analyze the community evolution. These communities are inherent characteristics of human interaction in online social network...
Yu-Ru Lin, Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Hari Sundaram, B...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The effect of affective iconic realism on anonymous interactants' self-disclosure
In this paper, we describe progress in research designed to explore the effect of the combination of avatars' visual fidelity and users' anticipated future interaction o...
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, James H. Watt
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Using rituals to express cultural differences in synthetic characters
There is currently an ongoing demand for richer Intelligent Virtual Environments (IVEs) populated with social intelligent agents. As a result, many agent architectures are taking ...
Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Nuno Afonso,...