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Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers

Robert West

As one of the Web's primary multilingual knowledge sources, Wikipedia is read by millions of people across the globe every day. Despite this global readership, little is known about why users read Wikipedia's various language editions. To bridge this gap, ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

User Guidance for Efficient Fact Checking

Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

The Web constitutes a valuable source of information. In recent years, it fostered the construction of large-scale knowledge bases, such as Freebase, YAGO, and DBpedia. The open nature of the Web, with content potentially being generated by everyone, howev ...

2019

User Guidance for Efficient Fact Checking

Thanh Trung Huynh, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Effort-driven Fact Checking

Thành Tâm Nguyên

The Web constitutes a valuable source of information. In recent years, it fostered the construction of large-scale knowledge bases, such as Freebase, YAGO, and DBpedia, each storing millions of facts about society in general, and specific domains, such as ...

2019

WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web

Joshua Evan Auerbach, Sebastian Risi, Jason Yosinski

We present a survey of the first 21 years of web-based artificial life (WebAL) research and applications, broadly construed to include the many different ways in which artificial life and web technologies might intersect. Our survey covers the period from ...

Mit Press2016

Open Robotics Research Using Web-based Knowledge Services

Aude Billard, Nadia Barbara Figueroa Fernandez, Ana-Lucia Ureche, Zhou Fang

In this paper we discuss how the combination of modern technologies in "big data" storage and management, knowledge representation and processing, cloud-based computation, and web technology can help the robotics community to establish and strengthen an op ...

Ieee2016

Reasoning with Style

Martí Bosch Padrós

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language constitutes a key component of web applications. It offers a series of sophisticated features to stylize web pages. Its apparent simplicity and power are however counterbalanced by the difficulty of debugging and m ...

AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence2015

Tangible Interfaces for Learning

Sébastien Cuendet

There have been many claims that Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) can have a positive impact on learning. Alleged benefits include increasing usability, improving engagement and collaboration of students, and providing a better perception of the task, esp ...

EPFL2013

Evaluating recommender systems from the user's perspective: survey of the state of the art

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen, Rong Hu

A recommender system is a Web technology that proactively suggests items of interest to users based on their objective behavior or explicitly stated preferences. Evaluations of recommender systems (RS) have traditionally focused on the performance of algor ...

Springer Netherlands2012

Efficient Processing of Ranking Queries in Novel Applications

Parisa Haghani

Ranking queries, which return only a subset of results matching a user query, have been studied extensively in the past decade due to their importance in a wide range of applications. In this thesis, we study ranking queries in novel environments and setti ...

EPFL2010