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AI
2000
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to construct knowledge bases from the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a vast source of information accessible to computers, but understandable only to humans. The goal of the research described here is to automatically create a...
Mark Craven, Dan DiPasquo, Dayne Freitag, Andrew M...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Adapting databases and WebDAV protocol
The ability of the Web to share data regardless of geographical location raises a new issue called remote authoring. With the Internet and Web browsers being independent of hardwa...
Bita Shadgar, Ian Holyer
UM
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Mobile Web Profiling: A Study of Off-Portal Surfing Habits of Mobile Users
Abstract. The World Wide Web has provided users with the opportunity to access from any computer the largest set of information ever existing. Researchers have analyzed how such us...
Daniel Olmedilla, Enrique Frías-Martí...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Improving accessibility of the web with a computer game
Images on the Web present a major accessibility issue for the visually impaired, mainly because the majority of them do not have proper captions. This paper addresses the problem ...
Luis von Ahn, Shiry Ginosar, Mihir Kedia, Ruoran L...
ELPUB
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A rapidly growing electronic publishing trend: Audiobooks for leisure and education
This contribution focuses on the relatively new phenomenon of the purely commercial availability of audiobooks, sometimes also called "spoken books", "talking books...
Jan Engelen