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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Fitting an activity-centric system into an ecology of workplace tools
Knowledge workers expend considerable effort managing fragmentation, characterized by constant switching among digital artifacts, when executing work activities. Activitycentric c...
Aruna D. Balakrishnan, Tara Matthews, Thomas P. Mo...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
The life and times of files and information: a study of desktop provenance
In the field of Human-Computer Interaction, provenance refers to the history and genealogy of a document or file. Provenance helps us to understand the evolution and relationships...
Carlos Jensen, Heather Lonsdale, Eleanor Wynn, Jil...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Cross-lingual Semantic Relatedness Using Encyclopedic Knowledge
In this paper, we address the task of crosslingual semantic relatedness. We introduce a method that relies on the information extracted from Wikipedia, by exploiting the interlang...
Samer Hassan, Rada Mihalcea
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
How it works: a field study of non-technical users interacting with an intelligent system
In order to develop intelligent systems that attain the trust of their users, it is important to understand how users perceive such systems and develop those perceptions over time...
Joe Tullio, Anind K. Dey, Jason Chalecki, James Fo...
SEMCO
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Towards LarKC: A Platform for Web-Scale Reasoning
Current Semantic Web reasoning systems do not scale to the requirements of their hottest applications, such as analyzing data from millions of mobile devices, dealing with terabyt...
Dieter Fensel, Frank van Harmelen, Bo Andersson, P...