We introduce the novel task of identifying important citations in scholarly literature, i.e., citations that indicate that the cited work is used or extended in the new effort. We believe this task is a crucial component in algorithms that detect and follow research topics and in methods that measure the quality of publications. We model this task as a supervised classification problem at two l...

This talk explores meaningfulness as an explicit design goal for conversational agents, programs that can understand and contribute to spoken dialogue with a human user in ordinary natural language. When we talk with other people, our judgments of meaning provide a systematic perspective on what we are doing. As our conversations unfold, we rely on these judgments to get our ideas across flexib...

For a controls experiment to be meaningful, it should provide knowledge that cannot be gained from theory or simulation. The authors maintain that the value of experiments is proportional to their fidelity to an industrial motivating problem. Without this, claims regarding the efficacy of a control method cannot be substantiated to any degree more than they could via simulation. The control of ...

Demanding business environments increasingly require knowledge work. Hereby, knowledge creation needs to rely on meaningful entities and representations, in particular for organizational change processes. In this paper we report on exploring essential benefits for stakeholders and communities when applying major principles of Maria Montessori when articulating and communicating knowledge. Exper...

A choice positively contributes to a player’s sense of agency when it leads to meaningfully different content. We shed light on what a player may consider meaningfully different by developing a formalism for interactive stories in terms of the change in situational content across choices. We hypothesized that a player will feel a higher sense of agency when making a choice if they foresee the a...

In my job at a busy public hospital I go through many reports sent in together with referrals for patients to be seen. The information contained in these reports determines how timely a patient has access to tertiary care facility. All your hard work is going to be locked up in a single piece of a paper the end of any study – it will either lead to reassurance, appropriate management or sometim...

Testing is one of the most time-consuming and cost-intensive tasks in software development projects today. A recent report of the NIST [RTI02] estimated the costs for the economy of the Unites States of America caused by software errors in the year 2000 to range from $22.2 to $59.5 billion. Consequently, in the past few years, many techniques and tools have been developed to reduce the high tes...