To respond to an utterance, a listener must interpret what others have said and why they have said it. Misunderstandings occur when agents differ in their beliefs about what has b...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
This paper investigates the role of online resources in problem solving. We look specifically at how programmers--an exemplar form of knowledge workers--opportunistically interlea...
Joel Brandt, Philip J. Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira ...
Mediators are considered basic architectural units for integration of distributed, heterogeneous information resources. In the paper we propose powerful virtual updateable views as...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Jacek Leszczylowski, Kazimierz...
We continue the investigation of the task of meaningful communication among intelligent entities (players, agents) without any prior common language. Our generic thesis is that su...