Papers.

Linearization, square pegs, and round holes

Lightly-Supervised Attribute Extraction

Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion

Argues that developers of large scale-out applications should not use distributed transactions, and develops an alternative discipline built on entities, activities and at-least-once messaging.

Innovation, Firm Size, and R&D Search

Improving Diversity in Ranking using Absorbing Random Walks

Identifying and extracting malignancy types in cancer literature

FilterBoost: Regression and Classification on Large Datasets

We study boosting in the filtering setting, where the booster draws examples from an oracle instead of using a fixed training set and so may train efficiently on very large datasets. Our algorithm, which is based on a logistic regression technique proposed by Collins, Schapire, & Singer, requires fewer assumptions to achieve bounds equivalent to or better than previous work. Moreover, we give the first proof that the algorithm of Collins et al. is a strong PAC learner, albeit within the filtering setting. Our proofs demonstrate the algorithm's strong theoretical properties for both classification and conditional probability estimation, and we validate these results through extensive experiments. Empirically, our algorithm proves more robust to noise and overfitting than batch boosters in conditional probability estimation and proves competitive in classification.

F-term classification Experiments at NTCIR-6 for Justsystems

Evaluation of Neighbourhood Selection Methods in Decentralized Recommendation Systems

Efficient Annotation with the Jena ANnotation Environment (JANE).

Crawling the infinite web

Computing Lexical Chains with Graph Clustering

Compacting, Composting Garbage Collection

Cognitive Foundry 2.0

Characterization of the Argentinian Web

Caracterización del Espacio Web de Argentina

Buscando en la web del futuro

Builders, Connectors and Lurkers: How Early Social Network Structure Shapes Subsequent Role Taking and Retention in Weblogging Communities

Author Guidelines for ICWSM Proceedings

Assembly : Circular Programming with Recursive do

Aspect-Oriented Design Principles : Lessons from Object-Oriented Design

An Epidemic-based P2P Recommender System

An Approach to Text Corpus Construction which Cuts Annotation Costs and Maintains Reusability of Annotated Data.

An Annotation Type System for a Data-Driven NLP Pipeline.

Adversarial information retrieval in the web

ADAPTIVE DISTRIBUTED SENSING FOR EMITTER LOCALIZATION WITH AUTONOMOUS UAV TEAM COOPERATION

A web-based SNOMED CT browser: distributed and real-time use of SNOMED CT during the clinical research process

A Study of Mobile Search Queries in Japan

A Partial Solution to the Semantic Web Services Challenge Problem Using Swashup - The Ruby on Rails Services Mashup Approach.

A Longitudinal Study of the Use of a Test-Driven Development Practice in Industry

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an agile practice that is widely accepted and advocated by most agile methods and methodologists. In this paper, we report on a longitudinal case study of an IBM team who has sustained use of TDD for five years and over ten releases of a Java-implemented product. The team worked from a design and wrote tests incrementally before or while they wrote code and, in the process, developed a significant asset of automated tests. The IBM team realized sustained quality improvement relative to a pre-TDD project and consistently had defect density below industry standards. As a result, our data indicate that the TDD practice can aid in the production of high quality products. This quality improvement would compensate for the moderate perceived productivity losses. Additionally, the use of TDD may decrease the degree to which code complexity increases as software ages.

A Domain-Based Approach to 2P Clitics in Pashto

A database integration system based on global view generation.

Distributed Gradient Systems and Dynamic Coordination

The Mixer and Transcript Reading Corpora: Resources for Multilingual, Crosschannel Speaker Recognition Research

More Data and Tools for More Languages and Research Areas: A Progress Report on LDC Activities

Integrated Linguistic Resources for Language Exploitation Technologies

Good Vibrations: Music Discovery Through Personal Musical Concepts.

Search Sounds: An Audio Crawler Focused On Weblogs.

SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN A LARGE-SCALE SOFTWARE PROJECT: THE CASE OF TRANSITION TO AGILE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract: Agile software development methods mainly aim at increasing software quality by fostering customer collaboration and performing exhaustive testing. The introduction of Extreme Programming (XP) – the most common agile software development method – into an organization is accompanied with conceptual and organizational changes. These changes range from daily-life changes (e.g., sitting together and maintaining an informative project environment) and continue with changes on the management level (e.g., meeting and listening to the customer during the whole process and the concept of the whole team which means that all role holders are part of the team). This paper examines the process of transition to an agile development process in a large-scale software project in the Israeli Air Force as it is perceived from the system analysis and design perspective. Specifically, the project specifications of the agile team are compared with those of a team who continues working according to the previous heavyweight method during the first half year of transition. Size and complexity measures are used as the basis of the comparison. In addition to the inspection of the specifications, the change in the role of the system analysts, as the system analysts conceive of it, is examined. 1

A query mining model for the design of content and structure in a Web site

Características de la Web de España

Modeling Reference Interviews as a Basis for Improving Automatic QA Systems

The automatic QA system described in this paper uses a reference interview model to allow the user to guide and contribute to the QA process. A set of system capabilities was designed and implemented that defines how the user's contributions can help improve the system. These include tools, called the Query Template Builder and the Knowledge Base Builder, that tailor the document processing and QA system to a particular domain by allowing a Subject Matter Expert to contribute to the query representation and to the domain knowledge. During the QA process, the system can interact with the user to improve query terminology by using Spell Checking, Answer Type verification, Expansions and Acronym Clarifications. The system also has capabilities that depend upon, and expand the user's history of interaction with the system, including a User Profile, Reference Resolution, and Question Similarity modules

A context pattern induction method for named entity extraction

Towards an integrated understanding of speaking rate in conversation

Identification of potential CSF biomarkers in ALS

BACKGROUND: The clinical diagnosis of ALS is based entirely on clinical features. Identification of biomarkers for ALS would be important for diagnosis and might also provide clues to pathogenesis. OBJECTIVE: To determine if there is a specific protein profile in the CSF that distinguishes patients with ALS from those with purely motor peripheral neuropathy (PN) and healthy control subjects. METHODS: CSF obtained from patients with ALS, disease controls (patients with other neurologic disorders), and normal controls were analyzed using the surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry proteomics technique. Biomarker sensitivity and specificity was calculated with receiver operating characteristic curve methodology. ALS biomarkers were purified and sequence identified by mass spectrometry-directed peptide sequencing. RESULTS: In initial proteomic discovery studies, three protein species (4.8-, 6.7-, and 13.4-kDa) that were significantly lower in concentration in the CSF from patients with ALS (n = 36) than in normal controls (n = 21) were identified. A combination of three protein species (the "three-protein" model) correctly identified patients with ALS with 95% accuracy, 91% sensitivity, and 97% specificity from the controls. Independent validation studies using separate cohorts of ALS (n = 13), healthy control (n = 25), and PN (n = 7) subjects confirmed the ability of the three CSF protein species to separate patients with ALS from other diseases. Protein sequence analysis identified the 13.4-kDa protein species as cystatin C and the 4.8-kDa protein species as a peptic fragment of the neurosecretory protein VGF. CONCLUSION: Additional application of a "three-protein" biomarker model to current diagnostic criteria may provide an...

Automated recognition of malignancy mentions in biomedical literature

Activity management as a Web service

In this paper, we present a new method for organizing collaborative work. This method is based on the concept of “activities,” defined here as high-level structured representations of the people, artifacts, and processes involved in work and their relationships. We show how users and developers can leverage this representation to enhance productivity, collaboration, and business applications. Central to our vision is an interface to activity data which is lightweight, based on Web Services, and enables activities to be easily integrated into the applications and tools people already use. We describe the Wax system for activity management, which implements our model of unified activity using both semantic Web and REST/XML (Representational State Transfer/Extensible Markup Language) approaches. We describe several user interfaces that let users interact with activity data, and we discuss our experiences using the Wax system for two case studies that involve coordinating a large event and managing accommodations for new employees.

Virtual XML: A toolbox and use cases for the XML world view

Network coding for routability improvement in VLSI

A framework for software evolution in sensor networks