This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an
established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the …

Automatic infographics generators employ machine learning algorithms/user-defined rules
and visual embellishments into the creation of infographics. It is an emerging topic in the …

Life-like characters is one of the most exciting technologies for human-computer interface
applications today. They convincingly take the roles of virtual presenters, synthetic actors …

With a few notable exceptions to which I will return below, most discussions of multimodal
analyses and multimodal meaning-making still proceed without an explicit consideration of …

This paper describes our work on dialogue systems that can mimic human conversation,
with the goal of providing intuitive access to a wide range of applications by expanding the …

Dictation systems, read-aloud software for the blind, speech control of machinery,
geographical information systems with speech input and output, and educational software …

For almost a decade people have been develo** hypertext or hypermedia applications
that adapt to some" features" of their users, like knowledge or preferences [Brusilovsky …

Abstract Enterprise Content Management (ECM) focuses on managing all types of content
being used in organizations. It is a convergence of previous approaches that focus on …

Research related to computational modeling for machine-based understanding requires
ground truth data for training, content analysis, and evaluation. In this paper, we present a …

A number of researchers have investigated the use of planbased approaches to generate
textual explanations (eg, Appelt 1985; Hovy 1988; Moore 1989; Maybury 1990b). This paper …