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CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Representing Context in Web Search with Ontological User Profiles
Abstract. One of the key factors for effective personalization of information access is the user context. We propose a framework which integrates several critical elements that mak...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Robin D. Burke
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The Influence of Task Contexts on the Decision-Making of Humans and Computers
Abstract. Many environments in which people and computer agents interact involve deploying resources to accomplish tasks and satisfy goals. This paper investigates the way that the...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Avi Pfeffer, Stuart...
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using Context for the Extraction of Relational Views
The paper presents an approach for automatically extracting views from a relational database schema, based on the knowledge of the application domain. In order to achieve such resu...
Cristiana Bolchini, Elisa Quintarelli, Rosalba Ros...
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Personalized Retrieval Model based on Influence Diagrams
Abstract. A key challenge in information retrieval is the use of contextual evidence within ad-hoc retrieval. Our contribution is particularly based on the belief that contextual r...
Nesrine Zemirli, Lynda Tamine, Mohand Boughanem
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Investigating the Specifics of Contextual Elements Management: The CEManTIKA Approach
In times where users need to process an ever increasing amount of
Vaninha Vieira, Patricia Azevedo Tedesco, Ana Caro...
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Ontologies as Contexts for Constraint-based Reasoning
We give a brief description of a system we are currently building that fulfils the promise of our title. This description also indicates why we are interested in the topic of cont...
Richard J. Wallace, Tomas Eric Nordlander, Ioannis...
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The User Model and Context Ontology GUMO Revisited for Future Web 2.0 Extensions
Dominik Heckmann, Eric Schwarzkopf, Junichiro Mori...
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Textual Inference Logic: Take Two
This note describes a logical system based on concepts and contexts, whose aim is to serve as a representation language for meanings of natural language sentences. The logic is a t...
Valeria de Paiva, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravd...
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Dialectic Approach for Using Viewpoint Discrepancies in Learning
Abstract. The paper proposes a dialectic approach to exploit discrepancies of viewpoints for learning. The approach is illustrated with an elaborated example. A computational frame...
Christiana Panayiotou, Vania Dimitrova
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Activity Systems and Context Working as Core Concepts in Modeling Socio-Technical Systems
Current modeling approaches in the field of learning and work resemble the notion of workflows and hence fall short in describing the situated and socially mediated nature of pract...
Heidrun Allert, Christoph Richter