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2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Homes that make us smart
In this article we consider what it should mean to build ‘‘smartness’’ or ‘‘intelligence’’ into the home. We introduce an argument suggesting that it is people who ...
Alex S. Taylor, Richard H. R. Harper, Laurel Swan,...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Filaments of Meaning in Word Space
Word space models, in the sense of vector space models built on distributional data taken from texts, are used to model semantic relations between words. We argue that the high dim...
Jussi Karlgren, Anders Holst, Magnus Sahlgren
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Adaptive language behavior in HCI: how expectations and beliefs about a system affect users' word choice
People display adaptive language behaviors in face-to-face conversations, but will computer users do the same during HCI? We report an experiment (N=20) demonstrating that users&#...
Jamie Pearson, Jiang Hu, Holly P. Branigan, Martin...
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Choosing words in computer-generated weather forecasts
One of the main challenges in automatically generating textual weather forecasts is choosing appropriate English words to communicate numeric weather data. A corpus-based analysis...
Ehud Reiter, Somayajulu Sripada, Jim Hunter, Jin Y...
ALIFE
2008
13 years 8 months ago
The Nature of Words in Human Protolanguages: It's Not a Holophrastic-Atomic Meanings Dichotomy
There is an ongoing debate as to whether the words in early pre-syntactic forms of human language had simple atomic meanings like modern words [4, 5], or whether they were holophr...
Mike Dowman