Current approaches to explicit user modelling are generally time consuming and tedious for the user. Oftentimes poor usability and overly long questionnaires deter the end user fro...
This thesis aims to analyze, model, and develop a framework for next-generation multimedia authoring tools targeted to end-users. In particular, I concentrate on the combination o...
Color is fundamental in computer graphics imagery. But despite the importance of good color selection and the difficulty most people have making those color selections, current gr...
Barbara J. Meier, Anne Morgan Spalter, David B. Ka...
Manual text annotation is a resource-consuming endeavor necessary for NLP systems when they target new tasks or domains for which there are no existing annotated corpora. Distribu...
Emilia Apostolova, Sean Neilan, Gary An, Noriko To...
There has been tremendous growth in electronic commerce over the past few years. This growth is expected to sustain momentum in the future. Hence, the Internet has become an essent...