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[1] Schema-free structured querying of DBpedia data Databases short paper session / Han, Lushan / Finin, Tim / Joshi, Anupam Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2012-10-29 p.2090-2093

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Summary: We need better ways to query large linked data collections such as DBpedia. Using the SPARQL query language requires not only mastering its syntax but also understanding the RDF data model, large ontology vocabularies and URIs for denoting entities. Natural language interface systems address the problem, but are still subjects of research. We describe a compromise in which non-experts specify a graphical query "skeleton" and annotate it with freely chosen words, phrases and entity names. The combination reduces ambiguity and allows the generation of an interpretation that can be translated into SPARQL. Key research contributions are the robust methods that combine statistical association and semantic similarity to map user terms to the most appropriate classes and properties in the underlying ontology.

[2] EDITED BOOK Search Computing: Broadening Web Search Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7538 / Ceri, Stefano / Brambilla, Marco 2012 n.16 p.254 Springer Berlin Heidelberg

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34213-4

ISBN: 978-3-642-34212-7 (print), 978-3-642-34213-4 (online)

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== Extraction and Integration ==
Web Data Reconciliation: Models and Experiences (1-15)
	+ Blanco, Lorenzo
	+ Crescenzi, Valter
	+ Merialdo, Paolo
	+ Papotti, Paolo
A Domain Independent Framework for Extracting Linked Semantic Data from Tables (16-33)
	+ Mulwad, Varish
	+ Finin, Tim
	+ Joshi, Anupam
Knowledge Extraction from Structured Sources (34-52)
	+ Unbehauen, Jörg
	+ Hellmann, Sebastian
	+ Auer, Sören
	+ Stadler, Claus
Extracting Information from Google Fusion Tables (53-67)
	+ Brambilla, Marco
	+ Ceri, Stefano
	+ Cinefra, Nicola
	+ Sarma, Anish Das
	+ Forghieri, Fabio
	+ et al
Materialization of Web Data Sources (68-81)
	+ Bozzon, Alessandro
	+ Ceri, Stefano
	+ Zagorac, Srdan
== Query and Visualization Paradigms ==
Natural Language Interfaces to Data Services (82-97)
	+ Guerrisi, Vincenzo
	+ Torre, Pietro La
	+ Quarteroni, Silvia
Mobile Multi-domain Search over Structured Web Data (98-110)
	+ Aral, Atakan
	+ Akin, Ilker Zafer
	+ Brambilla, Marco
Clustering and Labeling of Multi-dimensional Mixed Structured Data (111-126)
	+ Brambilla, Marco
	+ Zanoni, Massimiliano
Visualizing Search Results: Engineering Visual Patterns Development for the Web (127-142)
	+ Morales-Chaparro, Rober
	+ Preciado, Juan Carlos
	+ Sánchez-Figueroa, Fernando
== Exploring Linked Data ==
Extending SPARQL Algebra to Support Efficient Evaluation of Top-K SPARQL Queries (143-156)
	+ Bozzon, Alessandro
	+ Valle, Emanuele Della
	+ Magliacane, Sara
Thematic Clustering and Exploration of Linked Data (157-175)
	+ Castano, Silvana
	+ Ferrara, Alfio
	+ Montanelli, Stefano
Support for Reusable Explorations of Linked Data in the Semantic Web (176-190)
	+ Cohen, Marcelo
	+ Schwabe, Daniel
== Games, Social Search and Economics ==
A Survey on Proximity Measures for Social Networks (191-206)
	+ Cohen, Sara
	+ Kimelfeld, Benny
	+ Koutrika, Georgia
Extending Search to Crowds: A Model-Driven Approach (207-222)
	+ Bozzon, Alessandro
	+ Brambilla, Marco
	+ Ceri, Stefano
	+ Mauri, Andrea
BetterRelations: Collecting Association Strengths for Linked Data Triples with a Game (223-239)
	+ Hees, Jörn
	+ Roth-Berghofer, Thomas
	+ Biedert, Ralf
	+ Adrian, Benjamin
	+ Dengel, Andreas
An Incentive-Compatible Revenue-Sharing Mechanism for the Economic Sustainability of Multi-domain Search Based on Advertising (240-254)
	+ Brambilla, Marco
	+ Ceppi, Sofia
	+ Gatti, Nicola
	+ Gerding, Enrico H.

[3] How is the Semantic Web evolving? A dynamic social network perspective / Zhou, Lina / Ding, Li / Finin, Tim Computers in Human Behavior 2011-07 v.27 n.4 p.1294-1302

Keywords: Semantic Web

Keywords: Social network

Keywords: FOAF

Keywords: Dynamics

Keywords: Evolution

Keywords: Structural properties

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Summary: Finding how the Semantic Web has evolved can help understand the status of Semantic Web community and predict the diffusion of the Semantic Web. One of the promising applications of the Semantic Web is the representation of personal profiles using Friend of a Friend (FOAF). A key characteristic of such social networks is their continual change. However, extant analyses of social networks on the Semantic Web are essentially static in that the information about the change of social networks is neglected. To address the limitations, we analyzed the dynamics of a large-scale real-world social network in this paper. Social network ties were extracted from both within and between FOAF documents. The former was based on knows relations between persons, and the latter was based on revision relations. We found that the social network evolves in a speckled fashion, which is highly distributed. The network went through rapid increase in size at an early stage and became stabilized later. By examining the changes of structural properties over time, we identified the evolution patterns of social networks on the Semantic Web and provided evidence for the growth and sustainability of the Semantic Web community.

[4] Ensembles in adversarial classification for spam Poster session 8: IR track / Chinavle, Deepak / Kolari, Pranam / Oates, Tim / Finin, Tim Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2009-11-02 p.2015-2018

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Summary: The standard method for combating spam, either in email or on the web, is to train a classifier on manually labeled instances. As the spammers change their tactics, the performance of such classifiers tends to decrease over time. Gathering and labeling more data to periodically retrain the classifier is expensive. We present a method based on an ensemble of classifiers that can detect when its performance might be degrading and retrain itself, all without manual intervention. Experiments with a real-world dataset from the blog domain show that our methods can significantly reduce the number of times classifiers are retrained when compared to a fixed retraining schedule, and they maintain classification accuracy even in the absence of manually labeled examples.

[5] Improving binary classification on text problems using differential word features Poster session 8: IR track / Martineau, Justin / Finin, Tim / Joshi, Anupam / Patel, Shamit Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2009-11-02 p.2019-2024

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Summary: We describe an efficient technique to weigh word-based features in binary classification tasks and show that it significantly improves classification accuracy on a range of problems. The most common text classification approach uses a document's ngrams (words and short phrases) as its features and assigns feature values equal to their frequency or TFIDF score relative to the training corpus. Our approach uses values computed as the product of an ngram's document frequency and the difference of its inverse document frequencies in the positive and negative training sets. While this technique is remarkably easy to implement, it gives a statistically significant improvement over the standard bag-of-words approaches using support vector machines on a range of classification tasks. Our results show that our technique is robust and broadly applicable. We provide an analysis of why the approach works and how it can generalize to other domains and problems.

[6] Scalable semantic analytics on social networks for addressing the problem of conflict of interest detection / Aleman-Meza, Boanerges / Nagarajan, Meenakshi / Ding, Li / Sheth, Amit / Arpinar, I. Budak / Joshi, Anupam / Finin, Tim ACM Transactions on The Web 2008-02 v.2 n.1 p.7

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Summary: In this article, we demonstrate the applicability of semantic techniques for detection of Conflict of Interest (COI). We explain the common challenges involved in building scalable Semantic Web applications, in particular those addressing connecting-the-dots problems. We describe in detail the challenges involved in two important aspects on building Semantic Web applications, namely, data acquisition and entity disambiguation (or reference reconciliation). We extend upon our previous work where we integrated the collaborative network of a subset of DBLP researchers with persons in a Friend-of-a-Friend social network (FOAF). Our method finds the connections between people, measures collaboration strength, and includes heuristics that use friendship/affiliation information to provide an estimate of potential COI in a peer-review scenario. Evaluations are presented by measuring what could have been the COI between accepted papers in various conference tracks and their respective program committee members. The experimental results demonstrate that scalability can be achieved by using a dataset of over 3 million entities (all bibliographic data from DBLP and a large collection of FOAF documents).

[7] Mobile interaction with the real world Workshops / Rukzio, Enrico / Paolucci, Massimo / Finin, Tim / Wisner, Paul / Payne, Terry Proceedings of 8th Conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services 2006-09-12 p.295-296

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Summary: The main goal of the workshop is to discuss approaches that use a mobile device (e.g. mobile phone, smartphone, PDA) for interactions with objects in the real world. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) mobile interaction with the real world; mobile devices as user interfaces for terminals and vending machines; and Frameworks, middleware and APIs for the development of applications that take mobile interactions with the real world into account. The workshop combines technical presentations with the presentation of prototypes and focussed discussions to drive interaction between participants.

[8] Semantic analytics on social networks: experiences in addressing the problem of conflict of interest detection Social networks / Aleman-Meza, Boanerges / Nagarajan, Meenakshi / Ramakrishnan, Cartic / Ding, Li / Kolari, Pranam / Sheth, Amit P. / Arpinar, I. Budak / Joshi, Anupam / Finin, Tim Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on the World Wide Web 2006-05-23 p.407-416

Keywords: RDF, conflict of interest, data fusion, entity disambiguation, ontologies, peer review process, semantic analytics, semantic associations, semantic web, social networks

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Summary: In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers various 'semantic associations' between the reviewers and authors in a populated ontology to determine a degree of Conflict of Interest. This ontology was created by integrating entities and relationships from two social networks, namely "knows," from a FOAF (Friend-of-a-Friend) social network and "co-author," from the underlying co-authorship network of the DBLP bibliography. We describe our experiences developing this application in the context of a class of Semantic Web applications, which have important research and engineering challenges in common. In addition, we present an evaluation of our approach for real-life COI detection.

[9] Integrating ecoinformatics resources on the semantic web Browsers and UI, web engineering, hypermedia & multimedia, security, and accessibility / Parr, Cynthia Sims / Parafiynyk, Andriy / Sachs, Joel / Ding, Li / Dornbush, Sandor / Finin, Tim / Wang, David / Hollander, Allan Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on the World Wide Web 2006-05-23 p.1073-1074

Keywords: biodiversity, ecological forecasting, food webs, invasive species, ontologies, semantic web, service oriented design

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Summary: We describe ELVIS (the Ecosystem Location Visualization and Information System), a suite of tools for constructing food webs for a given location. We express both ELVIS input and output data in OWL, thereby enabling its integration with other semantic web resources. In particular, we describe using a Triple Shop application to answer SPARQL queries from a collection of semantic web documents. This is an end-to-end case study of the semantic web's utility for ecological and environmental research.

[10] The Integrality of Speech in Multimodal Interfaces / Grasso, Michael A. / Ebert, David S. / Finin, Timothy W. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 1998 v.5 n.4 p.303-325

Keywords: H.1.2 [Models and Principles]: User/Machine Systems, Human factors; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces -- evaluation/methodology; input devices and strategies; interaction styles; H.5.3 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Group and Organization Interfaces -- theory and models; J.3 [Computer Applications]: Life and Medical Sciences, Design, Experimentation, Human Factors, Measurement, Performance, Theory, Direct manipulation, Input devices, Integrality, Medical informatics, Multimodal, Natural-language processing, Pathology, Perceptual structure, Separability, Speech recognition

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Summary: A framework of complementary behavior has been proposed which maintains that direct-manipulation and speech interfaces have reciprocal strengths and weaknesses. This suggests that user interface performance and acceptance may increase by adopting a multimodal approach that combines speech and direct manipulation. This effort examined the hypothesis that the speed, accuracy, and acceptance of multimodal speech and direct-manipulation interfaces will increase when the modalities match the perceptual structure of the input attributes. A software prototype that supported a typical biomedical data collection task was developed to test this hypothesis. A group of 20 clinical and veterinary pathologists evaluated the prototype in an experimental setting using repeated measures. The results of this experiment supported the hypothesis that the perceptual structure of an input task is an important consideration when designing a multimodal computer interface. Task completion time, the number of speech errors, and user acceptance improved when interface best matched the perceptual structure of the input attributes.

[11] Software Agents for Information Retrieval Tutorials: Descriptions / Finin, Tim / Mayfield, James / Nicholas, Charles Proceedings of the 20th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 1997-07-27 p.343

Summary: This tutorial will provide an introduction to software agents and their potential applications in IR systems. The tutorial will be divided into three sections of roughly one hour each followed by a short conclusion. The first will present concepts which underly the software agents paradigm and illustrate them with a range of example applications. The second part will cover agent software architectures, agent communication languages, and cooperation protocols. The third segment will present examples of agent-based IR systems and discuss the techniques used in them.

[12] EDITED BOOK Intelligent User Interfaces / Sullivan, Joseph W. / Tyler, Sherman W. 1991 p.560 Reading, MA Addison-Wesley Publishing ACM Press

ISBN: 0-201-50305-0; QA 76.9 H85 A73; ACM Order number 704900

1	Introduction (1)
	+ Miller, James R.
	+ Sullivan, Joseph W.
	+ Tyler, Sherman W.
I	MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION
2	Intelligent Multi-Media Interface Technology (11)
	+ Neal, Jeannette G.
	+ Shapiro, Stuart C.
3	User and Discourse Models for Multimodal Communication (45)
	+ Wahlster, Wolfgang
4	The Contributing Influence of Speech and Interaction of Human Discourse Patterns (69)
	+ Oviatt, Sharon L.
	+ Cohen, Philip R.
II	MODELS, PLANS, AND GOALS
5	An Intelligent Interface Architecture for Adaptive Interaction (85)
	+ Tyler, Sherman W.
	+ Schlossberg, Jon L.
	+ Gargan, Robert A., Jr.
	+ Cook, Linda K.
	+ Sullivan, Joseph W.
6	General User Modeling: A Facility to Support Intelligent Interaction (111)
	+ Kass, Robert
	+ Finin, Tim
7	Communicating with High-Level Plans (129)
	+ Bonar, Jeffrey
	+ Liffick, Blaise W.
8	A Dialogue User Interface Architecture (157)
	+ Young, Robert L.
9	Intelligent Interfaces as Agents (177)
	+ Chin, David N.
III	DYNAMIC PRESENTATION DESIGN
10	Graphics and Natural Language as Components of Automatic Explanation (207)
	+ Roth, Steven F.
	+ Mattis, Joe
	+ Mesnard, Xavier
11	Presentation Design Using an Integrated Knowledge Base (241)
	+ Arens, Yigal
	+ Miller, Lawrence
	+ Sondheimer, Norman
12	An Architecture for Knowledge-Based Graphical Interfaces (259)
	+ Feiner, Stephen
13	Search Architectures for the Automatic Display of Graphical Presentations (281)
	+ Mackinlay, Jock D.
IV	KNOWLEDGE-BASED TOOLS FOR INTERFACE DESIGN
14	An Introduction to HITS: Human Interface Tool Suite (293)
	+ Hollan, James
	+ Rich, Elaine
	+ Hill, William
	+ Wroblewski, David
	+ Wilner, Wayne
	+ Wittenburg, Kent
	+ Grudin, Jonathan
15	UIDE -- An Intelligent User Interface Design Environment (339)
	+ Foley, James
	+ Kim, Won Chul
	+ Kovacevic, Srdjan
	+ Murray, Kevin
16	Using AI Techniques to Create User Interfaces by Example (385)
	+ Myers, Brad A.
17	Graphical Knowledge-Based Model Editors (403)
	+ Cypher, Allen
	+ Stelzner, Marilyn
18	BACKBOARD: An Implementation of Specification by Reformulation (421)
	+ Yen, John
	+ Neches, Robert
	+ DeBellis, Michael
	+ Szekely, Pedro
	+ Aberg, Peter
19	Structuring Programs to Support Intelligent Interfaces (445)
	+ Szekely, Pedro
Index (465)

[13] A General User Modelling Facility User Models / Kass, Robert / Finin, Tim Proceedings of ACM CHI'88 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1988-05-15 p.145-150

Keywords: User modelling, Model acquisition, Default reasoning, Stereotype, Cooperative behavior

Summary: An important component of adaptable interactive systems is the ability to model the system's users. Previous systems have relied on user models tailored to the particular needs of that system alone. This paper presents the notion of a general user model, and describes some of our research on building a general user modelling facility that could be used by a variety of applications. This work focuses on the representation, maintenance, and acquisition issues of modelling long-term beliefs of the user, and describes a general facility for accomplishing these tasks.