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Parry, David
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, New Zealand
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Comparative document summarization via discriminative sentence selection
Wang D., Zhu S., Li T., Gong Y. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 6(3): 1-18, 2012. Type: Article
The main novelty of this interesting and important paper lies in the identification of what is really an under-researched problem: how to summarize the differences between documents. While document similarity and document summarization...
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Feb 12 2013 |
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An application of artificial immune recognition system for prediction of diabetes following gestational diabetes
Lin H., Su C., Wang P. Journal of Medical Systems 35(3): 283-289, 2011. Type: Article
An interesting and important problem is addressed in this paper: whether women with diabetes related to pregnancy (gestational diabetes) will continue to suffer from diabetes in later life. The authors use an artificial immune system (...
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Jan 5 2012 |
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Motivating reflection about health within the family: the use of goal setting and tailored feedback
Colineau N., Paris C. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 21(4-5): 341-376, 2011. Type: Article
In this paper, the authors investigate the degree to which different goal-setting approaches affect a person’s motivation to participate in an online health improvement intervention. The authors provide background on the onli...
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Nov 28 2011 |
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Everyday information: the evolution of information seeking in America
Aspray W., Hayes B., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. 359 pp. Type: Book
The chapters in this collection of essays cover a wide range of areas, but focus distinctly on the US experience. The book places information gathering at the heart of human experience, and describes how ordinary people as diverse as a...
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Aug 16 2011 |
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Are separate interfaces inherently unequal?: An evaluation with blind users of the usability of two interfaces for a social networking platform
Wentz B., Lazar J. iConference 2011 (Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, Seattle, WA, Feb 8-11, 2011) 91-97, 2011. Type: Proceedings
This interesting and concise paper describes some experimental usability work involving the social networking site Facebook and visually impaired users. Wentz and Lazar performed usability tests based on a number of tasks that users we...
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Jul 5 2011 |
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Orienting kinesthetically: a haptic handheld wayfinder for people with visual impairments
Amemiya T., Sugiyama H. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing 3(2): 1-23, 2010. Type: Article
A handheld system to assist the visually impaired with wayfinding is described in this paper. The system is based on haptic feedback, using a handheld device that produces repetitive acceleration events in the direction being indicated...
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Apr 28 2011 |
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 Topic detection and organization of mobile text messages
Tian Y., Wang W., Wang X., Rao J., Chen C., Ma J. CIKM 2010 (Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Toronto, ON, Canada, Oct 26-30, 2010) 1877-1880, 2010. Type: Proceedings
Tian et al. deal with an interesting application of clustering, using both temporal distance and semantic similarity, to identify short message service (SMS) messages (between a pair of users) related to a particular topic....
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Feb 28 2011 |
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Unsupervised public health event detection for epidemic intelligence
Fisichella M., Stewart A., Denecke K., Nejdl W. CIKM 2010 (Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Toronto, ON, Canada, Oct 26-30, 2010) 1881-1884, 2010. Type: Proceedings
In this paper, unsupervised event detection is applied in order to support the identification of epidemic events from disease reports. The method uses clustering and event detection techniques to identify potential epidemic events, by ...
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Jan 24 2011 |
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Promoting occupational health in secondary schools through virtual patients
Wengenroth L., Hege I., Förderreuther K., Riu E., Mandl H., Kujath P., Radon K. Computers & Education 55(4): 1443-1448, 2010. Type: Article
Wengenroth et al. describe the construction and use of an online teaching tool concerned with occupational health. The application is designed for students, to help them understand the need for pre-employment health checks and consider...
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Dec 13 2010 |
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Exploratory search: beyond the query-response paradigm
White R., Roth R., Morgan&Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 2009. 100 pp. Type: Book (9781598297836)
White and Roth’s book is a concise introduction to the emerging area of exploratory search--activities that include browsing and focused search. Essentially, it deals with the common situation of a user learning more...
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Oct 11 2010 |
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