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GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Towards location-based social networking services
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Chi-Yin Chow, Jie Bao 0003, Mohamed F. Mokbel
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Informal interactions in nonprofit networks
Nonprofit organizations often need to excel in coordinating with other organizations and must do so in a variety of contexts and levels from the informal to the formal. Their abil...
Jennifer Stoll, W. Keith Edwards, Elizabeth D. Myn...
W4A
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Towards collaborative annotation for video accessibility
The ACAV project aims to explore how the accessibility of web videos can be improved by providing rich descriptions of video content in order to personalize the rendering of the c...
Pierre-Antoine Champin, Benoît Encelle, Nich...
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube
The motivation behind many Information Retrieval systems is to identify and present relevant information to people given their current goals and needs. Learning about user preferen...
Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, Bar...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Towards Improving the Naturalness of Social Conversations with Dialogue Systems
We describe an approach to improving the naturalness of a social dialogue system, Talkie, by adding disfluencies and other content-independent enhancements to synthesized conversa...
Matthew Marge, João Miranda, Alan W. Black,...