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Packrat Parsing: Simple, Powerful, Lazy, Linear Time

Packrat parsing is a novel technique for implementing parsers in a lazy functional programming language. A packrat parser provides the power and flexibility of top-down parsing with backtracking...

Design Guidelines for Landmarks to Support Navigation in Virtual Environments

Unfamiliar, large-scale virtual environments are difficult to navigate. This paper presents design guidelines to ease navigation in such virtual environments. The guidelines presented here focus...

Transformation-Based Learning in the Fast Lane

Transformation-based learning has been successfully employed to solve many natural language processing problems. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on many natural language processing tasks...

Stacking classifiers for anti-spam filtering of e-mail

We evaluate empirically a scheme for combining classifiers, known as stacked generalization, in the context of anti-spam filtering, a novel cost-sensitive application of text categorization....

Structural Inference of Hierarchies in Networks

One property of networks that has received comparatively little attention is hierarchy, i.e., the property of having vertices that cluster together in groups, which then join to form groups of...

Enriching WordNet concepts with topic signatures

This paper explores the possibility of enriching the content of existing ontologies. The overall goal is to overcome the lack of topical links among concepts in WordNet. Each concept is to be...

An Implementation of Back-Propagation Learning on GF11, a Large SIMD Parallel Computer

Current connectionist simulations require huge computational resources. We describe a neural network simulator for the IBM GF11, an experimental SIMD machine with 566 processors and a peak...

What Makes Effective Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams?

Effective leadership is one of the key drivers of business and project success, and one of the most active areas of management research. But how does leadership work in agile software development,...

Noise Flooding for Detecting Audio Adversarial Examples Against Automatic Speech Recognition

Neural models enjoy widespread use across a variety of tasks and have grown to become crucial components of many industrial systems. Despite their effectiveness and extensive popularity, they are...

Social Conformity Despite Individual Preferences for Distinctiveness

We demonstrate that individual behaviors directed at the attainment of distinctiveness can in fact produce complete social conformity. We thus offer an unexpected generative mechanism for this...

Prosody Based Co-analysis for Continuous Recognition of Coverbal Gestures

Although speech and gesture recognition has been studied extensively, all the successful attempts of combining them in the unified framework were semantically motivated, e.g., keyword-gesture...

61A Bot Report: AI Assistants in CS1 Save Students Homework Time and Reduce Demands on Staff. (Now What?)

LLM-based chatbots enable students to get immediate, interactive help on homework assignments, but even a thoughtfully-designed bot may not serve all pedagogical goals. We report here on the...

Capitalization and Punctuation Restoration: a Survey

Ensuring proper punctuation and letter casing is a key pre-processing step towards applying complex natural language processing algorithms. This is especially significant for textual sources where...

A Grid Fault Tolerant Doubly Fed Induction Generator Wind Turbine via Series Connected Grid Side Converter

With steadily increasing wind turbine penetration, regulatory standards for grid interconnection are evolving to require that wind generation systems ride-through disturbances such as faults and...

Recruiting Software Engineers on Prolific

Recruiting participants for software engineering research has been a primary concern of the human factors community. This is particularly true for quantitative investigations that require a...

The Argument against Quantum Computers

We give a computational complexity argument against the feasibility of quantum computers. We identify a very low complexity class of probability distributions described by noisy intermediate-scale...

Eavesdropping on Electronic Guidebooks: Observing Learning Resources in Shared Listening Environments

We describe an electronic guidebook, Sotto Voce, that enables visitors to share audio information by eavesdropping on each other's guidebook activity. We have conducted three studies of visitors...

How heated is it? Understanding GitHub locked issues

Although issues of open source software are created to discuss and solve technical problems, conversations can become heated, with discussants getting angry and/or agitated for a variety of...