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The Wisdom of Citing Scientists

This Brief Communication discusses the benefits of citation analysis in research evaluation based on Galton's "Wisdom of Crowds" (1907). Citations are based on the assessment of many which is why they can be ascribed a certain amount of accuracy. However, we show that citations are incomplete assessments and that one cannot assume that a high number of citations correlate with a high level of u...

Incremental Critiquing

Conversational recommender systems guide users through a product space, alternatively making concrete product suggestions and eliciting the user’s feedback. Critiquing is a common form of user feedback, where users provide limited feedback at the feature-level by constraining a feature’s value-space. For example, a user may request a cheaper product, thus critiquing the price feature. Usually, ...

Dynamic Critiquing

Critiquing is a powerful style of feedback for case-based recommender systems. Instead of providing detailed feature values, users indicate a directional preference for a feature. For example, a user might ask for a ‘less expensive’ restaurant in a restaurant recommender; ‘less expensive’ is a critique over the price feature. The value of critiquing is that it is generally applicable over a wid...

The EPISTLE Text-Critiquing System

gent " functions f o r processing business correspondence and other texts in an ofice environment. This paper focuses on the initial objectives of the system: critiquing written material on points of grammar and style. The overall system is described, with some details of the implementation, the user interface, and the three levels of processing, especially the syntactic parsing of sentences wi...