We demonstrate a new research approach to the problem of predicting the reading difficulty of a text passage, by recasting readability in terms of statistical language modeling. W...
Background: Much effort is currently made to develop the Gene Ontology (GO). Due to the dynamic nature of information it addresses, GO undergoes constant updates whose results are...
In a pilot effort to improve health communication we created a method for measuring the familiarity of various medical terms. To obtain term familiarity data, we recruited 21 volun...
Qing T. Zeng, Eunjung Kim, Jonathan Crowell, Tony ...
: Software practitioners recognise the importance of realistic estimates of effort for the successful management of software projects, the Web being no exception. Estimates are nec...
How do design decisions impact the quality of the resulting software? In an empirical study of 52 ECLIPSE plug-ins, we found that the software design as well as past failure histo...