In this paper, we presented the annotation propagation tool we designed to be used in conjunction with the BRAT rapid annotation tool. We designed two experiments to annotate a corpus of 60 files, first not using our tool, second using our propagation tool. We evaluated the annotation time and the quality of annotations. We shown that using the annotation propagation tool reduces by 31.7% the t...

This session features exciting keynote speeches by Rajeev Madhavan (Chairman & CEO, Magma Design Automation), Michael Reinhardt (CEO & President, RubiCAD), and Shekhar Borker (Intel Fellow & Director of Circuit Research Lab). In the first keynote speech, titled “Addressing the IC Designer’s Needs: Integrated Design Software for Faster, More Economical Chip Design”, Rajeev Madhaven highlights th...

Crowdsourced demarcations of object boundaries in images (segmentations) are important for many vision-based applications. A commonly reported challenge is that a large percentage of crowd results are discarded due to concerns about quality. We conducted three studies to examine (1) how does the quality of crowdsourced segmentations differ for familiar everyday images versus unfamiliar biomedic...

Schema matching is the process of establishing correspondences between the attributes of database schemas for data integration purposes. Although several automatic schema matching tools have been developed, their results are often incomplete or erroneous. To obtain a correct set of correspondences, usually human effort is required to validate the generated correspondences. This validation proce...

In this paper we propose ontology-based improvement of the Croatian Web directory search mechanism, which is currently not capable of executing queries that take into account the structure and semantics of user’s query. The proposed approach is verified by introducing an ontology in the domain (directory category) of “tourism”. We address three problems related to the search mechanism: low reca...

Search result diversification has attracted considerable attention as a means of improving the quality of results retrieved by user queries. In this demonstration, we presentPoikilo, a tool to assist users in locating and evaluating diverse results. We provide implementations of a wide suite of models and algorithms to compute and compare diverse results. Users can tune various diversification ...

For any given potential, linear response theory tells us the size that the von Weizsäcker coefficient must assume in order to obtain the correct energy in the weak coupling limit. With this necessarily imposed choice, the quality of results is investigated as the coupling is strengthened. From the study of a number of model problems (the harmonic oscillator, the Yukawa well and the Mathieu pote...

Algorithms for many hypergraph problems, including partitioning, utilize multilevel frameworks to achieve a good trade-off between the performance and the quality of results. In this paper we introduce two novel aggregative coarsening schemes and incorporate them within state-of-the-art hypergraph partitioner Zoltan. Our coarsening schemes are inspired by the algebraic multigrid and stable matc...

We review the major paradigms for similarity queries, in particular those that allow approximate results. We propose an original classification schema which easily allows existing approaches to be compared along several independent coordinates, such as quality of results, error metrics, and user interaction.

There is a gap between software testing research and practice. One reason is the discrepancy between how testing research is reported and how testing challenges are perceived in industry. We propose the SERP-test taxonomy to structure information on testing interventions and practical testing challenges from a common perspective and thus bridge the communication gap. To develop the taxonomy we ...