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Generating Multilingual Text for Video Documentaries
No full textA significant challenge for NLG is integrating generation technology with real world applications, especially multimedia and multimodal applications which have much more stringent synchronization constraints. We have implemented a system which creates narrative text that accompanies artificial documentaries (either as subtitles or to be synthesized for voiceovers), involving coordination problems for ordering and structuring the narratives in synchrony with an image animation component. In this paper we present a flexible, multilingual generation architecture for producing documentary
narratives that allows us to tackle the problems related to the selection and organization of content to be coupled with visual feedback, the selection of referring expressions that correctly identify and describe visual details, and the linguistic realization in different target language
Experiments with mobile drama in an instrumented museum for inducing conversation in small groups
No full textReport Generation for Postvisit Summaries in Museum Environments
No full textAs guardians of cultural heritage, museums are interested in a continual presence within their communities for both ongoing learning and improved public awareness of their collections. Thus an additional area where the technology demonstrated in PEACH can have an important impact is the
extension of the museum’s influence outside the confines of the museum itself. Personalization is one key to heightening this impact, where a permanent keepsake is given to a visitor upon her exiting the museum which describes her unique experience and is immediately recognizable as such. We are interested in using language technology in order to accomplish this goal of continuing to
educate a visitor after her museum visit is completed, and specifically personalization as the “hook” leading to further visitor interest. Rather than intrusively questioning visitors about their likes and dislikes upon completion of the visit in order to construct this personalized keepsake, we decided instead to use the sequence of interactions with the intelligent tour guide during the visit itself to predict which exhibits the visitor was most interested in, and then write a page-long report summarizing her tour, those artworks she was interested in as well as those she missed out on, and provide additional information that linked to what she had already discovered and that could be used to discover new information via the internet. The prototype described here produces written report summaries given the interest model described previously for the Torre Aquila museum, printed on demand, including color reproductions of the referenced artworks, and in either English or Italian
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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