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UM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
How Users Perceive and Appraise Personalized Recommendations
Abstract. Traditional websites have long relied on users revealing their preferences explicitly through direct manipulation interfaces. However recent recommender systems have gone...
Nicolas Jones, Pearl Pu, Li Chen
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine
We present Aardvark, a social search engine. With Aardvark, users ask a question, either by instant message, email, web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the que...
Damon Horowitz, Sepandar D. Kamvar
SIGUCCS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Better results in mathematics lessons with a virtual personal teacher
In this paper we present the results of an experiment made with our e-librarian service ”MatES”, an e-Learning tool on fractions in mathematics. MatES allows students to enter...
Serge Linckels, Carole Dording, Christoph Meinel
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Varying Personality in Spoken Dialogue with a Virtual Human
We extend a virtual human architecture that has been used to build tactical questioning characters with a parameterizable personality model, allowing characters to be designed with...
Michael Rushforth, Sudeep Gandhe, Ron Artstein, An...
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Sentence Extraction by Questioning
This paper presents a sentence extraction method based on Concept Coupling Model, a language model for handling natural language sentence structures. Sentence extraction is perfor...
Zenshiro Kawasaki, Keiji Shibata, Masato Tajima