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Data augmentation is a widely used trick when training deep neural networks: in addition to the original data, properly transformed data are also added to the training set. However, to the best of our knowledge, a clear mathematical framework to explain ...

The Federal Reserve System (the Fed) plays a significant role in affecting monetary policy and financial conditions worldwide. Although it is important to analyse the Fed's communications to extract useful information, it is generally long-form and ...

We study the problem of predicting the Field-of-Views (FoVs) of viewers watching 360° videos using commodity Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs). Existing solutions either use the viewer's current orientation to approximate the FoVs in the future, or ...

360° videos and Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) are getting increasingly popular. However, streaming 360° videos to HMDs is challenging. This is because only video content in viewers' Field-of-Views (FoVs) is rendered, and thus sending complete 360° videos ...

In this paper, we propose a perfume recommendation system which computes note similarity scores based on user feedbacks and suggests rather uncommon perfumes that the user potentially like, while being unaffected by the general popularity of certain ...

Humans are no longer the exclusive creators of art; art can now be produced by non-human actors such as artificial intelligence, machines, or animals. This paper presents EuglPollock, a platform for creating artwork through interactions between humans ...

ReMember is an interactive installation that provides bereaved pet owners with a sense of presence and connection to their deceased companion animals. Many pet owners suffer from bereavement and grief upon the loss of companion animals, and rituals and ...

Although analyzing user behavior within individual communities is an active and rich research domain, people usually interact with multiple communities both on- and off-line. How do users act in such multi-community environments? Although there are a ...

The content of today's social media is becoming more and more rich, increasingly mixing text, images, videos, and audio. It is an intriguing research question to model the interplay between these different modes in attracting user attention and ...

Group discussions are a way for individuals to exchange ideas and arguments in order to reach better decisions than they could on their own. One of the premises of productive discussions is that better solutions will prevail, and that the idea selection ...

Moderators of online communities often employ comment deletion as a tool. We ask here whether, beyond the positive effects of shielding a community from undesirable content, does comment removal actually cause the behavior of the comment's author to ...

This present work deliberately abandons the purpose of capturing the global resemblance between languages and the ambition of giving a rational foundation to probability of changes in linguistics, to focus instead on cladistic approach, which was ...

Despite the existence of highly successful Internet collaborations on complex projects, including open-source software, little is known about how Internet collaborations work for solving "extremely" difficult problems, such as open-ended research ...

I will discuss two current projects on automatically extracting certain types of lexical-semantic information in settings wherein we can rely neither on annotations nor existing knowledge resources to provide us with clues. The name of the game in such ...

The ad hoc retrieval task is to find documents in a corpus that are relevant to a query. Inspired by the PageRank and HITS (hubs and authorities) algorithms for Web search, we propose a structural reranking approach to ad-hoc retrieval that applies to ...

Many people enjoy keeping houseplants and get comfort from the presence of plants. Not only for aesthetics and medical purposes, plants also have many other uses in human history. As a result, plant ecology and its biological evolutions are closely ...

The language-modeling approach to information retrieval provides an effective statistical framework for tackling various problems and often achieves impressive empirical performance. However, most previous work on language models for information ...

Changing someone's opinion is arguably one of the most important challenges of social interaction. The underlying process proves difficult to study: it is hard to know how someone's opinions are formed and whether and how someone's views shift. ...

An Ant's Life is a game that explores the use of virtual reality in connection with physical props to tell a captivating story and create a unique immersive experience through innovation in graphics, gameplay and design. It takes a new approach to the ...

Researchers in textual entailment have begun to consider inferences involving downward-entailing operators, an interesting and important class of lexical items that change the way inferences are made. Recent work proposed a method for learning English ...