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This article reviews the state of archival science where basic concepts have been subject to a long stream of criticisms without satisfactory resolution of the issues identified. It establishes a ground for progress by articulating criteria for evaluating archival concepts and proposes a path forward by enriching archival science with concepts and methods from systemic functional linguistics and graph...
A simple but powerful language model called fixed-size ordinally-forgetting encoding (FOFE) based feedforward neural network language models (FNN-LMs) has been proposed recently. Experimental results have shown that FOFE based FNN-LMs can outperform not only the standard FNN-LMs but also the popular recurrent neural network language models (RNN-LMs). In this paper, we extend FOFE based FNN-LMs from...
Modeling and prediction of temporal sequences is central to many signal processing and machine learning applications. Prediction based on sequence history is typically performed using parametric models, such as fixed-order Markov chains ($n$ -grams), approximations of high-order Markov processes, such as mixed-order Markov models or mixtures of lagged bigram models, or with other machine learning...
Cascading pull-down menus are common interface elements in many modern graphical interactive applications. Navigation of standard cascading pull-down menus is governed by a combination of Fitts' and Acott-Zhai steering laws, however, recent research has shown that the constraints imposed by the two laws can be overcome by reducing the target distance by either reducing the target distance or increasing...
Steven Spielberg once said: “I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good movie” [20]. If you replace ‘idea’ with ‘architecture’ (at a certain point a synonym … almost), and ‘movie’ with ‘system’, does the updated Spielberg's heuristic still resonate? Current practices and formalized...
Empirical methods have grown common in software engineering, but there is no consensus on how to apply them properly. Is practical relevance key? Do internally valid studies have any value? Should we replicate more to address the tradeoff between internal and external validity? We asked the community how empirical research should take place in software engineering, with a focus on the tradeoff between...
Disruption-Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are characterized by long delays and constant disconnections among nodes. These networks have management needs analogous to those of traditional computer networks, but, their intrinsic characteristics (e.g., intermittent connections) hinder the execution of network management tasks. The employment of P2P technology is an alternative for managing DTNs since this...
In our research cluster on transculturality many projects deal with georeferenced data. This paper offers an introduction to the new project GeoTwain that works on visualisation techniques for such data. Based on an analysis of the global telegraph network as an example of transcultural research using geo-referenced data, the paper derives user requirements by combining experiences gained from previous...
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