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Automatic single-document key fact extraction from newswire articles
Authors: Itamar Kastner, Christof Monz
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2009)

This paper addresses the problem of extracting the most important facts from a news article. Our approach uses syntactic, semantic, and general statistical features to identify the most important sentences in a document. The importance of the individual features is estimated using generalized iterative scaling methods trained on an annotated newswire corpus. The performance of our approach is evaluated against 300 unseen news articles and shows that use of these features results in statistically significant improvements over a provenly robust baseline, as measured using metrics such as precision, recall and ROUGE.
Research on Key Issues for the Next Generation Middleware Technology
Authors: Li Qilin, Zhen Wei, Zhou Mintian
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Forum on Information Technology and Applications - Volume 01 (2009)

With networks becoming increasingly pervasive, new generation applications will have to deal with advanced non-functional properties such as context-awareness, openness, and mobility. These applications present some challenging problems to middleware designers. In this paper; we firstly attempt to identify the key characteristics of today’s networking environments. Subsequently, we look deeper into some key issues that next generation middleware needs to cope with. Also, details of some real solutions are showed as well. Finally, we present the future directions of research and conclude this paper.
Textile Wrinkle Shaped from Image
Authors: Beibei Li, Zhao Zhihong
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing - Volume 02 (2009)

This study proposes an algorithm to extract 3D geometric attributes of textile wrinkle from a photograph. The fundamental data may be derived from its boundary analysis for the purpose of representing its geometric shape. The simulated wrinkle may be improved and enhanced until the final performance meets user’s demand by an improved genetic algorithm and a proper and efficient human interference. Integrating coding techniques and the wrinkle’s boundary in actual iteration algorithm, its boundary shape are possibly determined by comparing its physical shape and that in the initial image observed by users. Experimental results show that the simulation can meet user’s needs within the finite iteration steps.
Rethinking enterprise network control
Authors: Martín Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Natasha Gude, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2009)

This paper presents Ethane, a new network architecture for the enterprise. Ethane allows managers to define a single network-wide fine-grain policy and then enforces it directly. Ethane couples extremely simple flow-based Ethernet switches with a centralized controller that manages the admittance and routing of flows. While radical, this design is backwards-compatible with existing hosts and switches. We have implemented Ethane in both hardware and software, supporting both wired and wireless hosts.We also show that it is compatible with existing high-fanout switches by porting it to popular commodity switching chipsets. We have deployed and managed two operational Ethane networks, one in the Stanford University Computer Science Department supporting over 300 hosts, and another within a small business of 30 hosts. Our deployment experiences have significantly affected Ethane's design.
Arabic diacritization through full morphological tagging
Authors: Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow
Venue: Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers on XX (2007)

We present a diacritization system for written Arabic which is based on a lexical resource. It combines a tagger and a lexeme language model. It improves on the best results reported in the literature.
Study on Requirements for Service Interaction
Authors: Evelina Pencheva, Ivaylo Atanasov, Georgi Tzompov, Petya Ilieva
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 Fourth International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (2009)

The paper concerns problems for service orchestration in IP-based multimedia telecommunications. For operators that want to leverage the value of legacy systems and services, Service Capability Interaction Manager (SCIM) provides means of wrapping those systems and services so that they can be orchestrated alongside new services. SCIM functionality is not specified in details and ‘live’ SCIM implementations need to consider operators’ service specifics. The paper presents a study on the requirements of SCIM that can be used to integrate existing intelligent network services implemented on different service platforms in the network of a real mobile operator. Different service interaction scenarios are investigated and the required functionality of SCIM is synthesized.
Menu Design in Cell Phones: Use of 3D Menus
Authors: Kyungdoh Kim, Robert W. Proctor, Gavriel Salvendy
Venue: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Part III: Ubiquitous and Intelligent Interaction (2009)

The number of mobile phone users has been steadily increasing due to the development of microtechnology and human needs for ubiquitous communication. Menu design features play a significant role in cell phone design from the perspective of customer satisfaction. Moreover, small screens of the type used on mobile phones are limited in the amount of available space. Therefore, it is important to obtain good menu design. Review of previous menu design studies for human-computer interaction suggests that design guidelines for mobile phones need to be reappraised, especially 3D display features. We propose a conceptual model for cell phone menu design with 3D displays. The three main factors included in the model are: the number of items, task complexity, and task type.
HTM: a topic model for hypertexts
Authors: Congkai Sun, Bin Gao, Zhenfu Cao, Hang Li
Venue: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2008)

Previously topic models such as PLSI (Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing) and LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) were developed for modeling the contents of plain texts. Recently, topic models for processing hypertexts such as web pages were also proposed. The proposed hypertext models are generative models giving rise to both words and hyperlinks. This paper points out that to better represent the contents of hypertexts it is more essential to assume that the hyperlinks are fixed and to define the topic model as that of generating words only. The paper then proposes a new topic model for hypertext processing, referred to as Hypertext Topic Model (HTM). HTM defines the distribution of words in a document (i.e., the content of the document) as a mixture over latent topics in the document itself and latent topics in the documents which the document cites. The topics are further characterized as distributions of words, as in the conventional topic models. This paper further proposes a method for learning the HTM model. Experimental results show that HTM outperforms the baselines on topic discovery and document classification in three datasets.
Paraphrase recognition via dissimilarity significance classification
Authors: Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
Venue: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2006)

We propose a supervised, two-phase framework to address the problem of paraphrase recognition (PR). Unlike most PR systems that focus on sentence similarity, our framework detects dissimilarities between sentences and makes its paraphrase judgment based on the significance of such dissimilarities. The ability to differentiate significant dissimilarities not only reveals what makes two sentences a non-paraphrase, but also helps to recall additional paraphrases that contain extra but insignificant information. Experimental results show that while being accurate at discerning non-paraphrasing dissimilarities, our implemented system is able to achieve higher paraphrase recall (93%), at an overall performance comparable to the alternatives.
Large-scale semantic networks: annotation and evaluation
Authors: Václav Novák, Sven Hartrumpf, Keith Hall
Venue: Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (2009)

We introduce a large-scale semantic-network annotation effort based on the MutliNet formalism. Annotation is achieved via a process which incorporates several independent tools including a MultiNet graph editing tool, a semantic concept lexicon, a user-editable knowledge-base for semantic concepts, and a MultiNet parser. We present an evaluation metric for these semantic networks, allowing us to determine the quality of annotations in terms of inter-annotator agreement. We use this metric to report the agreement rates for a pilot annotation effort involving three annotators.
Research of Shrapnel-Pill Dispersing Blind Area's Influence on Damage Effectiveness
Authors: Guo-Hua Su, Qi Yang, Ping Cui, Ming-Hai Wang
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Environmental Science and Information Application Technology - Volume 01 (2009)

In the past, we evaluated damage effectiveness of shrapnel pill ignoring dispersing blind area. Researches and experiments show that dispersing dead area of shrapnel pill is in existence. The math model of stochastic producing method of bullet falling point when taking into account dispersing dead area is set up, damage effectiveness when considering dispersing blind area based on two representative targets is analyzed. Through fixing other conditions, analyze different factor’s influence on damage effectiveness. Results show dispersing blind area affects damage effectiveness greatly, controlling dispersing blind area radius rationally can improve the damage probability effectively.
Which Distance for the Identification and the Differentiation of Cell-Cycle Expressed Genes?
Authors: Alpha Diallo, Ahlame Douzal-Chouakria, Francoise Giroud
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis: Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis VIII (2009)

This paper addresses the clustering and classification of active genes during the process of cell division. Cell division ensures the proliferation of cells, but becomes drastically aberrant in cancer cells. The studied genes are described by their expression profiles (i.e. time series) during the cell division cycle. This work focuses on evaluating the efficiency of four major metrics for clustering and classifying gene expression profiles. The study is based on a random-periods model for the expression of cell-cycle genes. The model accounts for the observed attenuation in cycle amplitude or duration, variations in the initial amplitude, and drift in the expression profiles.
Algorithmic Aspects of Property Testing in the Dense Graphs Model
Authors: Oded Goldreich, Dana Ron
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop and 13th International Workshop on Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (2009)

In this paper we consider two basic questions regarding the query complexity of testing graph properties in the adjacency matrix model. The first question refers to the relation between adaptive and non-adaptive testers, whereas the second question refers to testability within complexity that is inversely proportional to the proximity parameter, denoted ¿. The study of these questions reveals the importance of algorithmic design (also) in this model. The highlights of our study are: A gap between the complexity of adaptive and non-adaptive testers. Specifically, there exists a (natural) graph property that can be tested using ${\widetilde{O}}(\epsilon^{-1})$ adaptive queries, but cannot be tested using o(¿ ¿ 3/2) non-adaptive queries. In contrast, there exist natural graph properties that can be tested using ${\widetilde{O}}(\epsilon^{-1})$ non-adaptive queries, whereas ¿(¿ ¿ 1) queries are required even in the adaptive case. We mention that the properties used in the foregoing conflicting results have a similar flavor, although they are of course different.
Combining pixon concept with wavelet thresholding in medical image segmentation
Authors: G. A. Rezai Rad, H. Yousefian, H. Hassanpour, A. Zehtabian
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications (2009)

This paper presents an innovative pixon-based method for image segmentation. The novel method uses the combination of wavelet thresholding and the pixon concept. In our method the wavelet thresholding technique is used to smooth the image and prepare it for a more efficient pixon forming. In addition, utilizing the wavelet transform results in decreasing the pixons number, a faster performance and more robustness against unwanted environmental noises. In the next stage, the appropriate pixons are extracted and eventually we segment the image with the use of a hierarchical clustering method. The results of applying the proposed method on several different images indicate its better performance in image segmentation compared to the other methods.
Little Design Up-Front: A Design Science Approach to Integrating Usability into Agile Requirements Engineering
Authors: Sisira Adikari, Craig Mcdonald, John Campbell
Venue: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Part I: New Trends (2009)

In recent years, Design Science has gained wide recognition and acceptance as a formal research method in many disciplines including information systems. Design Science research in Human-Computer Interaction is not so abundant. HCI is a discipline primarily focusing on design, evaluation, and implementation where design plays the role as a process as well as an artefact. In this paper, we present a design science approach using "Little Design Up Front" to integrate the User-Centred Design perspective into Agile Requirements Engineering. We also present the results of two agile projects to validate the proposition that incorporating UCD perspective into Agile Software Development improves the design quality of software systems.
Vision-motion planning of a mobile robot considering vision uncertainty and planning cost
Authors: Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai
Venue: Proceedings of the Fifteenth international joint conference on Artifical intelligence - Volume 2 (1997)

This paper proposes a planning method for a vision-guided mobile robot under vision uncertainty and limited computational resources. The method considers the following two tradeoffs: (1) granularity in approximating a probabilistic distribution vs. plan quality, and (2) search depth vs. plan quality. The first tradeoff is managed by predicting the plan quality for a granularity using a learned relationship between them, and by adaptively selecting the best granularity. The second trade-off is managed by formulating the planning process as a search in the space of feasible plans, and by appropriately limiting the search considering the merit of each step of the search. Simulation results and experiments using a real robot show the feasibility of the method.
Weaving Services and People on the World Wide Web, 1st edition
Authors: Irwin King, Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Venue:  (2009)

Ever since its inception, the Web has changed the landscape of human experiences on how we interact with one another and data through service infrastructures via various computing devices. This interweaving environment is now becoming ever more embedded into devices and systems that integrate seamlessly on how we live, both in our working or leisure time. For this volume, King and Baeza-Yates selected some pioneering and cutting-edge research work that is pointing to the future of the Web. Based on the Workshop Track of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) in Beijing, they selected the top contributions and asked the authors to resubmit their work with a minimum of one third of additional material from their original workshop manuscripts to be considered for this volume. After a second-round of reviews and selection, 16 contributions were finally accepted. The work within this volume represents the tip of an iceberg of the many exciting advancements on the WWW. It covers topics like semantic web services, location-based and mobile applications, personalized and context-dependent user interfaces, social networks, and folksonomies. The presentations aim at researchers in academia and industry by showcasing latest research findings. Overall they deliver an excellent picture of the current state-of-the-art, and will also serve as the basis for ongoing research discussions and point to new directions.
Detection of Microbes in Natural Industrial Cooling Water by Conductometric Method
Authors: Hong Men, Shengwei Mu, Yan Peng, Lingfei An
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation - Volume 02 (2009)

This paper reports the detections of sulfate reduction bacteria (SRB) and iron bacteria in natural industrial cooling water by conductmetric analysis method. Natural industrial cooling water, containing lots of microbes, is special and complex environment where microbes are suitable to grow and multiply under certain conditions of pH, water temperature and sunlight etc. If microbes of cooling water system are excessive, sludge will deposit and then plug pipes, leading to the reduction of cooling water flow and of thermal transmission efficiency. SRB and iron bacteria are the main causes of biofouling formation. To shorten detecting time and improve the accuracy of detection results, it is important to develop quick and accurate detection methods for SRB and iron bacteria in cooling water. The detection method of SRB and iron bacteria in Chinese chemical industrial standard is most probably number methods (MPN) which is to inoculate water samples of different dilution rates into liquid culture medium and place them into incubator tube. The disadvantage of MPN method is long incubating time, for example, of 14 days for iron bacteria and 21 days for SRB. This paper proves the feasibility testing on SRB and iron bacteria using conductance method and the MPN, as an independent method, is used to confirm the results of the conductance method.
Scaling up word sense disambiguation via parallel texts
Authors: Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 3 (2005)

A critical porblem faced by current supervised WSD systems is the lack or manually annotated training data. Tackling this data acquisition bottleneck is crucial, in order to build high-accuracy and wide-coverage WSD systems. In this paper, we show that the approach of automatically gathering training examples from parallel texts is scalable to a large set of nouns. We conducted evaluation on the nouns of SENSEVAL-2 English all-words task, using fine-grained sense scoring. Our evaluation shows that training on examples gathered from 680MB of parallel texts achieves accuracy comparable to the best system of SENSEVAL-2 English all-words task, and significantly outperforms the baseline of always choosing sense 1 of WordNet.
Brief paper: Detection and stabilization for discrete-time descriptor systems via a limited capacity communication channel
Authors: Lei Zhou, Guoping Lu
Venue: Automatica (Journal of IFAC) (2009)

This paper addresses the state estimation and stabilization for linear discrete-time descriptor systems. It is assumed that the estimator and controller can only receive the transmitted sequence of finite coded signals via a limited digital communication channel. Both coder-decoder and coder-decoder-controller procedures are proposed, in which a compensation term is introduced to meet the compatible requirement. In addition, an effective method for selecting the compensation term is presented. Detection and stabilization conditions in terms of linear matrix inequality are obtained. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of design procedures.
The `H' in HCI: Enhancing Perception of Interaction through the Performative
Authors: Simon Biggs, Mariza Dima, Henrik Ekeus, Sue Hawksley, Wendy Timmons, Mark Wright
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Virtual and Mixed Reality: Held as Part of HCI International 2009 (2009)

Motion sensing technologies are well developed at the bio-mechanical (motion capture) and geo-locative (GPS) scales. However, there are many degrees of scale between these extremes and there have been few attempts to seek the integration of systems that were designed for distinct contexts and tasks. The proposition that motivated the Scale project team was that through such systems integration it would be possible to create an enhanced perception of interaction between human participants who might be co-located or remotely engaged, separated in either (or both) time or space. A further aim was to examine how the use of these technologies might inform current s discourse on the performative.
Infinite vs. Finite Space-Bounded Randomized Computations
Authors: Richard Královic
Venue: Proceedings of the 2009 24th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (2009)

Probabilistic computations can be very powerful with respect to space complexity, e.g. for logarithmic space, zero probability of error is equivalent to nondeterminism. This power, however, depends on the possibility of infinite computations. A natural open question is if this feature is necessary. We answer the question for sweeping finite automata (SFAs), i.e. two-way finite automata that can change the direction of head motion at endmarkers only. We show that zero probability of error SFAs allowing infinite computations can be exponentially more succinct than zero probability of error SFAs forbidding them. We also provide a strengthened form of this result showing that forbidding infinite computations can not be traded for the more powerful bounded-error probabilistic model. To prove our results, we introduce a technique for proving lower bounds on space complexity of SFAs that generalizes the notion of generic words discovered by M. Sipser.
Towards Cognitive-Aware Multimodal Presentation: The Modality Effects in High-Load HCI
Authors: Yujia Cao, Mariët Theune, Anton Nijholt
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: Held as Part of HCI International 2009 (2009)

In this study, we argue that multimodal presentations should be created in a cognitive-aware manner, especially in a high-load HCI situation where the user task challenges the full capacity of the human cognition. An experiment was conducted to investigate the cognitive effects of modalities, using a high-load task. The performance measurements and subjective reports consistently confirm a significant modality impact on cognitive workload, stress and performance. A relation between modality usage and physiological states was not found, due to the insufficient sensitivity and individual differences of the physiological measurements. The findings of this experiment can be well explained by several modality-related cognitive theories. We further integrate these theories into a suitability prediction model, which can systematically predict how suitable a certain modality usage is for this presentation task. The model demonstrates a possible approach towards cognitive-aware modality planning and can be modified for other applications.