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KDD
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
The problem of ethnicity identification from names has a variety of important applications, including biomedical research, demographic studies, and marketing. Here we report on th...
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KDD
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
2006
ACM
In this paper, we investigate how deviation in evaluation activities may reveal bias on the part of reviewers and controversy on the part of evaluated objects. We focus on a `data...
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MM
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
2005
ACM
We propose a multi-sensor affect recognition system and evaluate it on the challenging task of classifying interest (or disinterest) in children trying to solve an educational pu...
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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
2008
Springer
Scoring rules are a broad and concisely-representable class of voting rules which includes, for example, Plurality and Borda. Our main result asserts that the class of scoring rul...
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ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
2010
Springer
Interactive narrative allows the user to play a role in a story and interact with other characters controlled by the system. Directorial control is a procedure for dynamically tun...