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ISEMANTICS
2010
15 years 8 months ago
Twarql: tapping into the wisdom of the crowd
Twarql is an infrastructure translating microblog posts from Twitter as Linked Open Data in real-time. The approach employed in Twarql can be summarized as follows: (1) extract co...
Pablo N. Mendes, Alexandre Passant, Pavan Kapanipa...
IVS
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Human perception of structure in shaded space-filling visualizations
Very early in the object recognition process the human visual system extracts shading information. While shading can enhance the visibility of structures, it can have a negative i...
Pourang Irani, Dean Slonowsky, Peer Shajahan
IJMMS
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Beyond ontologies: Toward situated representations of scientific knowledge
: In information systems that support knowledge-discovery applications such as scientific exploration, reliance on highly structured ontologies as data-organization aids can be lim...
William Pike, Mark Gahegan
CSCW
2006
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution
A tagging community’s vocabulary of tags forms the basis for social navigation and shared expression. We present a user-centric model of vocabulary evolution in tagging communit...
Shilad Sen, Shyong K. Lam, Al Mamunur Rashid, Dan ...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Auditory priming for upcoming events
Psychologically preparing for upcoming events can be a difficult task, particularly when switching social contexts, e.g., from office work to a family event. To help with such tra...
Timothy Sohn, Leila Takayama, Dean Eckles, Rafael ...