: Component-based software development has matured into standard practice in software engineering. Among the advantages of reusing software modules are lower costs, faster developm...
Guanxi is a type of dyadic social interaction based on feelings ("qing") and trust ("xin"). Long studied by scholars of Chinese origin, it has recently drawn t...
Facial expressions and speech are means to convey information. They can be used to reinforce speech or even complementary to speech. The main goal of our research is to investigate...
This paper discusses the influence of the corpus on the automatic identification of proper names in texts. Techniques developed for the newswire genre are generally not sufficient...
We present our experiences of using an iterative, prototypedriven approach to developing social systems with the participation of communities, inspired by probe-based methodologie...