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ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Learning empathy: a data-driven framework for modeling empathetic companion agents
Affective reasoning plays an increasingly important role in cognitive accounts of social interaction. Humans continuously assess one another's situational context, modify the...
Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester
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IUI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
An intelligent discussion-bot for answering student queries in threaded discussions
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
EMNLP
2007
15 years 5 months ago
Improving Query Spelling Correction Using Web Search Results
Traditional research on spelling correction in natural language processing and information retrieval literature mostly relies on pre-defined lexicons to detect spelling errors. Bu...
Qing Chen, Mu Li, Ming Zhou
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Generating query substitutions
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
A generic framework for collaborative multi-perspective ontology acquisition
The research objective of this work is to develop a general framework that incorporates collaborative social tagging with a novel ontology scheme conveying multiple perspectives. ...
Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Judit Bar-Ilan, Yitzcha...