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GIR
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Eliciting concepts of place for text-based image retrieval
This paper describes research being employed in the Tripod project to improve the retrieval of photographs through a comprehensive knowledge of where they were taken. The methods ...
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Finding visual concepts by web image mining
We propose measuring "visualness" of concepts with images on the Web, that is, what extent concepts have visual characteristics. This is a new application of "Web i...
Keiji Yanai, Kobus Barnard
JCDL
2004
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Element matching in concept maps
Concept maps (CM) are informal, semantic, node-link conceptual graphs used to represent knowledge in a variety of applications. Algorithms that compare concept maps would be usefu...
Byron Marshall, Therani Madhusudan
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Putting threshold concepts into context in computer science education
This paper describes Threshold Concepts, a theory of learning that distinguishes core concepts whose characteristics can make them troublesome in learning. With an eye to applying...
Anna Eckerdal, Robert McCartney, Jan Erik Mostr&ou...
ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Novice Java programmers' conceptions of "object" and "class", and variation theory
Problems with understanding concepts, so called misconceptions, have been investigated and reported in a number of studies regarding object-oriented programming [4], [3]. In a fi...
Anna Eckerdal, Michael Thuné