Our text extraction tool takes a sentence of unrestricted English language input and produces a set of frames describing the relations between and possible interpretations of the individuals and actions in the sentence. Our analogical text matcher takes two texts of unrestricted English language input and tries to find analogies between the actions and individuals in the two texts. It starts by producing a set of frames describing the relations between and possible interpretations of the individuals and actions in each separate text. Since a computer allows tailoring of information, digital news can be made meaningful to an individual reader. The ideal computer software program would present us with news that relates to our personal experiences.
Augmented news expands on the content and makes remote news relevant.
Data hiding, a form of steganography, embeds data into digital media for the purpose of identification, annotation or copyright protection. The more the system knows about the user, the better able it is to make sense of the ambiguities and inconsistencies inherent in human communication. Our work in user-modeling involves the full exploitation of the user's computational environment so that information can be integrated to construct dynamic, individual, user models that change over time as the user changes and the system learns more about the user. People have notoriously bad memories. We forget where we left our keys, people's names, and simple directions.