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SMUG: Scientific Music Generator

Music is based on the real world. Composers use their day-to-day lives as inspiration to create rhythm and lyrics. Procedural music generators are capable of creating good quality pieces, and while some already use the world as inspiration, there is still much to be explored in this. We describe a system to generate lyrics and melodies from real-world data, in particular from academic papers. T...

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Poland's environmental docs.

a corresponding flux from the ocean to the atmosphere. This effect might lessen or negate the benefits to stratospheric ozone from a reduction in anthropogenic emissions of methyl bromide. In terms of costs to society from the ban, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation estimates growers in its state stand to lose $340 million per year in crop damage. Duafala says no single alternati...

DOCS: Domain-Aware Crowdsourcing System

Crowdsourcing is a new computing paradigm that harnesses human effort to solve computer-hard problems, such as entity resolution and photo tagging. The crowd (or workers) have diverse qualities and it is important to effectively model a worker’s quality. Most of existing worker models assume that workers have the same quality on different tasks. In practice, however, tasks belong to a variety o...

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