Transforming our conversation of information architecture with structure

Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 2

A Computational Architecture for Conversation

We describe representation, inference strategies, and control procedures employed in an automated conversation system named the Bayesian Receptionist. The prototype is focused on the domain of dialog about goals typically handled by receptionists at the front desks of buildings on the Microsoft corporate campus. The system employs a set of Bayesian user models to interpret the goals of speakers...

the transforming face of fracture epidemiology: our concern

Complementary molecular information changes our perception of food web structure.

How networks of ecological interactions are structured has a major impact on their functioning. However, accurately resolving both the nodes of the webs and the links between them is fraught with difficulties. We ask whether the new resolution conferred by molecular information changes perceptions of network structure. To probe a network of antagonistic interactions in the High Arctic, we use t...

Discourse Architecture and Very Large-scale Conversation

Mailing lists, newsgroups, and weblogs are just three examples of a large set of new discussion forums that are sited on the Internet. In these forums citizens across the world conduct a new form of many-to-many, cross-border relations. New forms of governance and collective action are taking place on the Internet and national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations pr...