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Position Paper 8: Cupcake Digital Launches First App Addressing An Important...Cupcake Digital
Cupcake Digital’s commitment to social responsibility and caring is taking a giant step in a new direction that promises to earn the increased respect of parents and educators alike.
Position Paper 8: Cupcake Digital Launches First App Addressing An Important...Cupcake Digital
Cupcake Digital’s commitment to social responsibility and caring is taking a giant step in a new direction that promises to earn the increased respect of parents and educators alike.
Structured gene annotations are a foundation on which many bioinformatics and statistical analyses are built, however their representation is quite sparse – in comparison to the total knowledge that could be captured. As centralized biocuration efforts struggle to keep up with the rate of biomedical data generation, new models for gene annotation need to be explored.
Recently, online games have emerged as an effective way to recruit, engage and organize contributors to help address difficult challenges like online image tagging (ESP Game), protein folding (Foldit), or multiple sequence alignment (Phylo).
We present here two online games - Dizeez and GenESP - aimed at identifying novel gene-disease annotations, i.e. gene-disease links well established in the literature, but not yet reflected as structured annotations. Preliminary results are provided from game play online and at scientific confer-ences. These data suggest that even after limited game play, novel gene-disease annotations can be mined from game playing logs.
Both games are available at http://genegames.org.
This is the slide deck I presented at Manage Agile 2014, Berlin, Germany on "Agile beyond Tech" How do non-tech-teams like Marketing or Legal apply agile methodologies?
Do you want more details? Drop me a line (robertmisch.office@gmail.com) or twitter me @RobertMisch.
The Village Zero Team had the opportunity to present at the Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) annual symposium a few weeks back on some of the progress we’ve made this past year on our mission. There’s some really interesting work happening under the Village Zero umbrella, and we’re especially proud of the contributions our intern Tara has made in the short time she’s been with us. If you want to check out a glimpse of her most recent project – an applet that will help users predict how much cholera incidence to expect and where to expect it when temperature, rainfall, and the date of interest are inputted.
This is the slide deck Sascha Rehbock and I presented at Agile Bodensee 2014, Konstanz, Germany.
Want more Details? Drop me a line (robertmisch.office@gmail.com) or twitter me @RobertMisch.
PNL cambios mentales por medio del lenguajeCarlos Florez
Un resumen del modelo de Programación Neurolinguística de Richard Bandler y John Grinder, como influye el lenguaje en la operación de la mente y cuales son sus campos de aplicación.
Quality is a mainstream issue for Websites and Web-based systems. Analysts, designers and developers can choose from a variety of models and methods to design and evaluate quality Websites. However, our experience, both as users and professionals, is too often disappointing. Besides usability, the most known of the factors contributing to a Website’s quality, there are a large numbers of other features to take into account. Moreover, these features go beyond the scope of Computer Science and Information Systems. A systemic and systematic approach to Website quality evaluation has to take into account (1) the role of the Website for the company or organization and (2) a collection of requirements arising from the usually large number of different users of the Website. This presentation illustrates the application of an approach in which a Website’s quality goals are described in terms of the elimination of quality gaps. The quality gaps are derived from a highly successful model for the quality of services widely applied in Economics and Management. The paper focuses on the need for a flexible evaluation process starting from the identification of the quality gaps. The result is a modular process including an initial set of guidelines extracted from projects run on more than fifteen years for Websites in diverse sectors.
Klink-2: integrating multiple web sources to generate semantic topic networksFrancesco Osborne
ISWC 2015 research paper: http://oro.open.ac.uk/43793/1/ISWC2015_CR.pdf
Abstract:
The amount of scholarly data available on the web is steadily increasing, enabling different types of analytics which can provide important insights into the research activity. In order to make sense of and explore this large-scale body of knowledge we need an accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date ontology of research topics. Unfortunately, human crafted classifications do not satisfy these criteria, as they evolve too slowly and tend to be too coarse-grained. Current automated methods for generating ontologies of research areas also present a number of limitations, such as: i) they do not consider the rich amount of indirect statistical and semantic relationships, which can help to understand the relation between two topics – e.g., the fact that two research areas are associated with a similar set of venues or technologies; ii) they do not distinguish between different kinds of hierarchical relationships; and iii) they are not able to handle effectively ambiguous topics characterized by a noisy set of relationships. In this paper we present Klink-2, a novel approach which improves on our earlier work on automatic generation of semantic topic networks and addresses the aforementioned limitations by taking advantage of a variety of knowledge sources available on the web. In particular, Klink-2 analyses networks of research entities (including papers, authors, venues, and technologies) to infer three kinds of semantic relationships between topics. It also identifies ambiguous keywords (e.g., “ontology”) and separates them into the appropriate distinct topics – e.g., “ontology/philosophy” vs. “ontology/semantic web”. Our experimental evaluation shows that the ability of Klink-2 to integrate a high number of data sources and to generate topics with accurate contextual meaning yields significant improvements over other algorithms in terms of both precision and recall.
Structured gene annotations are a foundation on which many bioinformatics and statistical analyses are built, however their representation is quite sparse – in comparison to the total knowledge that could be captured. As centralized biocuration efforts struggle to keep up with the rate of biomedical data generation, new models for gene annotation need to be explored.
Recently, online games have emerged as an effective way to recruit, engage and organize contributors to help address difficult challenges like online image tagging (ESP Game), protein folding (Foldit), or multiple sequence alignment (Phylo).
We present here two online games - Dizeez and GenESP - aimed at identifying novel gene-disease annotations, i.e. gene-disease links well established in the literature, but not yet reflected as structured annotations. Preliminary results are provided from game play online and at scientific confer-ences. These data suggest that even after limited game play, novel gene-disease annotations can be mined from game playing logs.
Both games are available at http://genegames.org.
This is the slide deck I presented at Manage Agile 2014, Berlin, Germany on "Agile beyond Tech" How do non-tech-teams like Marketing or Legal apply agile methodologies?
Do you want more details? Drop me a line (robertmisch.office@gmail.com) or twitter me @RobertMisch.
The Village Zero Team had the opportunity to present at the Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) annual symposium a few weeks back on some of the progress we’ve made this past year on our mission. There’s some really interesting work happening under the Village Zero umbrella, and we’re especially proud of the contributions our intern Tara has made in the short time she’s been with us. If you want to check out a glimpse of her most recent project – an applet that will help users predict how much cholera incidence to expect and where to expect it when temperature, rainfall, and the date of interest are inputted.
This is the slide deck Sascha Rehbock and I presented at Agile Bodensee 2014, Konstanz, Germany.
Want more Details? Drop me a line (robertmisch.office@gmail.com) or twitter me @RobertMisch.
PNL cambios mentales por medio del lenguajeCarlos Florez
Un resumen del modelo de Programación Neurolinguística de Richard Bandler y John Grinder, como influye el lenguaje en la operación de la mente y cuales son sus campos de aplicación.
Quality is a mainstream issue for Websites and Web-based systems. Analysts, designers and developers can choose from a variety of models and methods to design and evaluate quality Websites. However, our experience, both as users and professionals, is too often disappointing. Besides usability, the most known of the factors contributing to a Website’s quality, there are a large numbers of other features to take into account. Moreover, these features go beyond the scope of Computer Science and Information Systems. A systemic and systematic approach to Website quality evaluation has to take into account (1) the role of the Website for the company or organization and (2) a collection of requirements arising from the usually large number of different users of the Website. This presentation illustrates the application of an approach in which a Website’s quality goals are described in terms of the elimination of quality gaps. The quality gaps are derived from a highly successful model for the quality of services widely applied in Economics and Management. The paper focuses on the need for a flexible evaluation process starting from the identification of the quality gaps. The result is a modular process including an initial set of guidelines extracted from projects run on more than fifteen years for Websites in diverse sectors.
Klink-2: integrating multiple web sources to generate semantic topic networksFrancesco Osborne
ISWC 2015 research paper: http://oro.open.ac.uk/43793/1/ISWC2015_CR.pdf
Abstract:
The amount of scholarly data available on the web is steadily increasing, enabling different types of analytics which can provide important insights into the research activity. In order to make sense of and explore this large-scale body of knowledge we need an accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date ontology of research topics. Unfortunately, human crafted classifications do not satisfy these criteria, as they evolve too slowly and tend to be too coarse-grained. Current automated methods for generating ontologies of research areas also present a number of limitations, such as: i) they do not consider the rich amount of indirect statistical and semantic relationships, which can help to understand the relation between two topics – e.g., the fact that two research areas are associated with a similar set of venues or technologies; ii) they do not distinguish between different kinds of hierarchical relationships; and iii) they are not able to handle effectively ambiguous topics characterized by a noisy set of relationships. In this paper we present Klink-2, a novel approach which improves on our earlier work on automatic generation of semantic topic networks and addresses the aforementioned limitations by taking advantage of a variety of knowledge sources available on the web. In particular, Klink-2 analyses networks of research entities (including papers, authors, venues, and technologies) to infer three kinds of semantic relationships between topics. It also identifies ambiguous keywords (e.g., “ontology”) and separates them into the appropriate distinct topics – e.g., “ontology/philosophy” vs. “ontology/semantic web”. Our experimental evaluation shows that the ability of Klink-2 to integrate a high number of data sources and to generate topics with accurate contextual meaning yields significant improvements over other algorithms in terms of both precision and recall.
La Unidad Eudista de Espiritualidad se complace en poner a su disposición el siguiente Triduo Eudista, que tiene como propósito ofrecer tres breves meditaciones sobre Jesucristo Sumo y Eterno Sacerdote, el Sagrado Corazón de Jesús y el Inmaculado Corazón de María. En cada día encuentran una oración inicial, una meditación y una oración final.