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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Social and semantics analysis via non-negative matrix factorization
Social media such as Web forum often have dense interactions between user and content where network models are often appropriate for analysis. Joint non-negative matrix factorizat...
Zhi-Li Wu, Chi-Wa Cheng, Chun-hung Li
ANLP
2000
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13 years 11 months ago
Translation using Information on Dialogue Participants
This paper proposes a way to improve the translation quality by using information on dialogue participants that is easily obtained from outside the translation component. We incor...
Setsuo Yamada, Eiichiro Sumita, Hideki Kashioka
TIS
2002
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13 years 10 months ago
Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social Benefits of Forgetfulness
: Modern information systems not only capture a seemingly endless amount of transactional data, but also tend to retain it for indefinite periods of time. We argue that privacy pol...
Jean-François Blanchette, Deborah G. Johnso...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Toward an Understanding of the Motivation of Open Source Software Developers
An Open Source Software (OSS) project is unlikely to be successful unless there is an accompanied community that provides the platform for developers and users to collaborate. Mem...
Yunwen Ye, Kouichi Kishida