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Collaborative Annotation for Context-Aware Retrieval
"... We discuss how collaborative annotations can be exploited to simplify and improve the management of context and resources in the context-aware retrieval field. We apply this approach to our Context Aware Browser, a general purpose solution to Web content perusal by means of mobile devices, based on ..."
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We discuss how collaborative annotations can be exploited to simplify and improve the management of context and resources in the context-aware retrieval field. We apply this approach to our Context Aware Browser, a general purpose solution to Web content perusal by means of mobile devices, based on the user’s context. Instead of relying on a pool of experts and on a rigid categorization, as it is usually done in the context-aware field, our solution allows the crowd of users to model, control and manage the contextual knowledge through collaboration and participation. We propose two models and we outline an example of application. 1.
The Academic Open Access E-Journal: Platform and Portal
"... This paper demonstrates that advanced technologies and the increasing acceptance of academic open access e-journals offer an opportunity to reconsider their form and function as a medium to enhance scholarly communication. The academic open access e-journal is envisioned as a platform and a portal w ..."
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This paper demonstrates that advanced technologies and the increasing acceptance of academic open access e-journals offer an opportunity to reconsider their form and function as a medium to enhance scholarly communication. The academic open access e-journal is envisioned as a platform and a portal within the context of an open source community including a format and functions that enable it to achieve that objective. A working model for academic open access ejournals is presented. This model is intended for open source communities involved in designing, developing, and/or improving open access academic e-journals.
A decade of database conferences: a look inside the program committees
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"... Abstract Database management technology has played a vital role in facilitating key advancements of the information technology field. Database researchers—and computer scientists in general—consider prestigious conferences as their favorite and effective tools for presenting their original research ..."
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Abstract Database management technology has played a vital role in facilitating key advancements of the information technology field. Database researchers—and computer scientists in general—consider prestigious conferences as their favorite and effective tools for presenting their original research study and for getting good publicity. With the main aim of retaining the high quality and the prestige of these conference, program committee members plays the major role of evaluating the submitted articles and deciding which submissions are to be included in the conference programs. In this article, we study the program committees of four top-tier and prestigious database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT) over a period of 10 years (2001–2010). We report about the growth in the number of program committee members in comparison to the size of the research community in the last decade. We also analyze the rate of change in the membership of the committees of the different editions of these conferences. Finally, we report about the major contributing scholars in the committees of these conferences as a mean of acknowledging their impact in the community.
Citation Auctions as a Method to Improve Selection of Scientific Papers
"... This paper describes the basis of citation auctions that are introduced as a new approach to selecting scientific papers for publication. Unlike the state of the art in paper selection that relies on peer reviews, our main idea is to use an auction in which bids consist of the number of citations th ..."
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This paper describes the basis of citation auctions that are introduced as a new approach to selecting scientific papers for publication. Unlike the state of the art in paper selection that relies on peer reviews, our main idea is to use an auction in which bids consist of the number of citations that an author expects to receive if the paper is published. Hence, a citation auction is the selection process itself, and no reviewers are involved. The benefits of the proposed approach are two-fold. First, the cost of refereeing will be either totally eliminated or significantly reduced, because the process of citation auction does not need prior understanding of the paper’s content to judge the quality of its contribution. Additionally, the method does not prejudge the content of the paper, so it will increase the openness of publications to new ideas. Second, scientists will be much more committed to the quality of their submitted papers, paying close attention to distributing and explaining their papers in detail to maximize the number of citations that the paper receives when published. Sample analyses of the number of citations collected via Google scholar for papers published in years 1999-2004 in a series of proceedings, and in years 2003-2005 in a series of conferences (in a totally different discipline) are provided. Finally, a simple simulation of an auction is given to outline the behaviour of the citation auction approach. 1.
Social approach to context-aware retrieval
"... In this paper we present a general purpose solution to Web content perusal by means of mobile devices, named Social Context-Aware Browser. This is a novel approach for the information access based on the users ’ context, whose aim is to retrieve what the user needs, even if she did not issue any que ..."
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In this paper we present a general purpose solution to Web content perusal by means of mobile devices, named Social Context-Aware Browser. This is a novel approach for the information access based on the users ’ context, whose aim is to retrieve what the user needs, even if she did not issue any query. Our solution is built upon a social model that exploits the collaborative efforts of the whole community of users to control and manage contextual knowledge, related both to situations and resources. This paper presents a general survey of our solution, describing the idea and presenting an implementation approach.
Examining Intersubjectivity in Social Knowledge Artifacts Research-in-Progress
"... Thanks to the modern ICT, social knowledge creation and dissemination has reached new frontiers of ease, accessibility and velocity. This raises questions of quality and validity of knowledge created in open online knowledge communities. Multiple models of knowledge evaluation in open online communi ..."
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Thanks to the modern ICT, social knowledge creation and dissemination has reached new frontiers of ease, accessibility and velocity. This raises questions of quality and validity of knowledge created in open online knowledge communities. Multiple models of knowledge evaluation in open online communities have been proposed but a general conceptual framework is still lacking. We develop a concept of Social Knowledge Artifact (SKA) and integrate it with the notion of intersubjectivity in the social systems of knowledge creation and refinement. Further, we outline a conceptual model of SKA evaluation that combines the constructs of the artifact attainment, artifact controversy, author self-assessment and reviewer bias. Our future research entails development and empirical testing of the research model and proposing recommendations for the design of information systems to support social knowledge creation and refinement.
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"... This position paper analyzes the current situation in the scholarly publishing and peer review practices and presents three thesis: (i) we are going to run out of peer reviewers; (ii) it is possible to replace referees with readers, an approach that is named Readersourcing; and (iii) it is possible ..."
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This position paper analyzes the current situation in the scholarly publishing and peer review practices and presents three thesis: (i) we are going to run out of peer reviewers; (ii) it is possible to replace referees with readers, an approach that is named Readersourcing; and (iii) it is possible to avoid potential weaknesses in the Readersourcing model by adopting an appropriate quality control mechanism. The readersourcing.org system is then presented as an independent, third-party, non-profit, academic/scientific endeavor, aimed at quality rating of scholarly literature and scholars, and some possible criticisms are discussed. 1
People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources ” in the Springer
"... Abstract With the rise of the Web 2.0, participatory and collaborative content production have largely replaced the traditional ways of information sharing and have created the novel genre of collaboratively constructed language resources. A vast untapped potential lies in the dynamic aspects of the ..."
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Abstract With the rise of the Web 2.0, participatory and collaborative content production have largely replaced the traditional ways of information sharing and have created the novel genre of collaboratively constructed language resources. A vast untapped potential lies in the dynamic aspects of these resources, which cannot be unleashed with traditional methods designed for static corpora. In this chapter, we focus on Wikipedia as the most prominent instance of collaboratively constructed language resources. In particular, we discuss the significance of Wikipedia’s revision history for applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the unique prospects of the user discussions, a new resource that has just begun to be mined. While the body of research on processing Wikipedia’s revision history is dominated by works that use the revision data as the basis for practical applications such as spelling correction or vandalism detection, most of the work focused on user discussions uses NLP for analyzing and understanding the data itself.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Synthesizing Union Tables from the Web
"... Several recent works have focused on harvesting HTML tables from the Web and recovering their semantics [Cafarella et al., 2008a; Elmeleegy et al., 2009; Limaye et al., 2010; Venetis et al., 2011]. As a result, hundreds of millions of high quality structured data tables can now be explored by the us ..."
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Several recent works have focused on harvesting HTML tables from the Web and recovering their semantics [Cafarella et al., 2008a; Elmeleegy et al., 2009; Limaye et al., 2010; Venetis et al., 2011]. As a result, hundreds of millions of high quality structured data tables can now be explored by the users. In this paper, we argue that those efforts only scratch the surface of the true value of structured data on the Web, and study the challenging problem of synthesizing tables from the Web, i.e., producing never-before-seen tables from raw tables on the Web. Table synthesis offers an important semantic advantage: when a set of related tables are combined into a single union table, powerful mechanisms, such as temporal or geographical comparison and visualization, can be employed to understand and mine the underlying data holistically. We focus on one fundamental task of table synthesis, namely, table stitching. Within a given site, many tables with identical schemas can be scattered across many pages. The task of table stitching involves combining such tables into a single meaningful union table and identifying extra attributes and values for its rows so that rows from different original tables can be distinguished. Specifically, we first define the notion of stitchable tables and identify collections of tables that can be stitched. Second, we design an effective algorithm for extracting hidden attributes that are essential for the stitching process and for aligning values of those attributes across tables to synthesize new columns. We also assign meaningful names to these synthesized columns. Experiments on real world tables demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. 1
m-Dvara 2.0: Mobile & Web 2.0 Services Integration for Cultural Heritage
"... Web 2.0 marks a new philosophy where user is the main actor and content producer: users write blogs and comments, they tag, link, and upload photos, pictures, videos, and podcasts. As a step further, Mobile 2.0 adapts Web 2.0 technology to mobile users. We intend to study how Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 ..."
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Web 2.0 marks a new philosophy where user is the main actor and content producer: users write blogs and comments, they tag, link, and upload photos, pictures, videos, and podcasts. As a step further, Mobile 2.0 adapts Web 2.0 technology to mobile users. We intend to study how Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 together can be applied to the cultural heritage sector. A number of cultural institutions and museums are introducing in their projects some Web 2.0 applications, but the main knowledge source remains a small group of a few experts. Our approach is different: we plan to let all the users, the crowd, to be the main contents provider. We aim to the crowdsourcing, the long tail power, as we call fuel of cultural heritage system. In this paper, we describe the m-Dvara 2.0 project, whose aim is a system that lets users to create, share, and use cultural contents including mobile context-aware features.
