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UAI
1998
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Inferring Informational Goals from Free-Text Queries: A Bayesian Approach
People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals ...
David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz
ECSCW
1993
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Design for Unanticipated Use..
: Support for work practice is better conceptualised as support for activity taking place in a multidimensional space than as prescription of temporal task sequences. The notion of...
Mike Robinson
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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Introducing concurrency in CS 1
Because of the growing importance of concurrent programming, many people are trying to figure out where in the curriculum to introduce students to concurrency. In this paper we di...
Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk, Thomas P....
JETAI
2007
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Contextual vocabulary acquisition as computational philosophy and as philosophical computation
Contextual vocabulary acquisition (CVA) is the active, deliberate acquisition of a meaning for an unknown word in a text by reasoning from textual clues, prior knowledge, and hypo...
William J. Rapaport, Michael W. Kibby
IBMSJ
2000
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Context-aware design and interaction in computer systems
As human computer interface gets more immersive, it will need to explicitly draw upon cognitive science as a basis for understanding what people are capable of doing. User experie...
Ted Selker, Winslow Burleson