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ICT 4 the MDGs? A Perspective on ICT's Role in Addressing Urban Poverty in the Context of the Millennium Development Goals.
(2013)Since the year 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have anchored efforts to combat global poverty. As we near 2015, this article assesses ICTs’ role in reaching the goals, with an emphasis on urban poverty. Over ... -
Identification and interpretation of figurative language with computational semantic models
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)This thesis is about the automatic extraction of metaphors as they appear in English text. This task is important to research in information retrieval, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. The work was ... -
Identification and Retrieval of WWW-based Courseware: A Metadata Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)Information retrieval is often a tedious and time consuming task on the Internet, as information is stored in an unstructured manner. There is no guarantee that what you find is relevant to your needs, on the correct topics, ... -
Identifying an appropriate pedagogy for virtual worlds: A Communal Constructivism case study
(2010)As increasing numbers of educators explore the use of virtual worlds for education, there is a need to consider which pedagogical approaches can provide an opportunity to do more than recreate the traditional classroom by ... -
Identifying and interpreting context on the Web : an application-driven approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2008)This work describes the use of contextual information in Web document processing. Contextual information is defined as the contents of a 'context set' of a document of interest on the Web. The context set of a document is ... -
Identifying Common User Behaviour in Multilingual Search Logs
(2010)The LADS (Log Analysis for Digital Societies) task at CLEF aims at investigating user actions in a multilingual setting. We carried out an analysis of search logs with the objectives of investigating how users from ... -
Identifying requirements and features for communications systems between older people in care settings
(IEEE, 2010)Care settings for older people, such as nursing homes, can have low levels of social interaction, which has been shown in many studies as being crucial to both the mental and physical well-being of older adults. ... -
Identifying Topic Shift and Topic Shading in Switchboard
(2018)This paper highlights some of the ongoing work on the ADELE project, namely the identification and annotation of topic shift and topic shading in the Switchboard-1 Release-2 corpus. The purpose of this is to train an ... -
Identifying translation effects in English natural language text
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)With the rise in popularity of applying machine learning methods to problems in textual stylometry, the increased availability of machine-readable corpora and the emerging benefits of research on corpora of translated text ... -
An Identity Privacy Preserving Incentivization Scheme for Participatory Sensing
(2018)Participatory sensing is a paradigm through which mobile device users (or participants) collect and share data about their environments. The data captured by participants is typically submitted to an intermediary (the ... -
IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Roaming
(IEEE, 2007)We live in a truly connected society, at least in the Western world. The challenge now, therefore, isn't to provide connectivity but to retain it as users roam, potentially between unfamiliar and heterogeneous environments. -
Image Decomposition using Geometric Region Colour Unmixing
(2020)In this paper, we propose a new geometric approach for image decomposition which aims to combine the advantages of two state of the art techniques. Given an input image, we first compute a palette of colours from the image ... -
IMHO: An Exploratory Study of Hedging in Web Forums
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013)We explore hedging in web forum conversations, which is interestingly different to hedging in academic articles, the main focus of recent automatic approaches to hedge detection. One of our main results is that forum posts ... -
Immersive Imaging Technologies: From Capture to Display
(2020)New immersive imaging technologies enable creating multimedia systems that would increase the viewer presence and provide an immersive experience. This half-day tutorial aims to give an overview of these new immersive ... -
The impact of automatic video auditing with real-time feedback on the quality and quantity of handwash events in a hospital setting
(2020)Background: Poor quality handwashing contributes to the spread of nosocomial infections. We investigate the impact of automatic video auditing (AVA) with feedback on the quality and quantity of handwashing in a hospital ... -
The impact of body mass index on functional rehabilitation outcomes of working-age inpatients with stroke
(2021)Background: Stroke is the most relevant cause of acquired persistent disability in adulthood. The relationship between patient's weight during rehabilitation and stroke functional outcome is controversial, previous research ... -
The impact of gender-inclusive methods on design decision making
(Sette Citta, 2023)Many assumptions regarding gender biases in design have been raised in recent decades, such as that gender stereotypes can be ingrained in products and services (Akrich, 1992; van Oost, 2003) and that the gender imbalance ... -
The Impact of Increasing and Decreasing the Professionalism of News Webpage Aesthetics on the Perception of Bias in News Articles
(Springer, 2020-07-19)This paper reports further results from a large study examining the impact of the visual aesthetics of news websites on the perception of bias in news articles. It focuses on the characteristic of professionalism, which ... -
The Impact of Structured Incentives on the Adoption of a Serious Game for Hand Hygiene Training in a Hospital Setting.
(IOS Press, 2016)Hand hygiene is recognized by the CDC as the most effective method of preventing Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) which cost the US healthcare system $14 Billion. However, training and promotion of hand hygiene ...