Biographic Clinics

Biographic Clinics

Structural, Transitive and Latent Models for Biographic Fact Extraction

This paper presents six novel approaches to biographic fact extraction that model structural, transitive and latent properties of biographical data. The ensemble of these proposed models substantially outperforms standard pattern-based biographic fact extraction methods and performance is further improved by modeling inter-attribute correlations and distributions over functions of attributes, a...

Modeling Latent Biographic Attributes in Conversational Genres

This paper presents and evaluates several original techniques for the latent classification of biographic attributes such as gender, age and native language, in diverse genres (conversation transcripts, email) and languages (Arabic, English). First, we present a novel partner-sensitive model for extracting biographic attributes in conversations, given the differences in lexical usage and discou...

Adaptive fusion of biometric and biographic information for identity de-duplication

Use of biometrics for person identification has increased tremendously over the past decade, e.g., in large scale national identification programs, for law enforcement and border control applications, and social welfare initiatives. For such large scale applications with a diverse target population, unimodal biometric systems, which use a single biometric trait (e.g., fingerprints), are inadequ...

Contiguous spaces of remembrance in identity writing: chemistry, fiction and the autobiographic question in Primo Levi's The Periodic Table

In this paper the author draws on Primo Levi's problematic use of biographic narrative techniques by means of asystematic and symbolic co ordination of a selection of 21 inorganic elements pertaining to Mendeleyev's peliodic table. By exploring the mechanisms of remembrance and trauma in conjunction with chemistry and the necessities of testimony, the author argues that Primo Levi's collection ...

Suffering Beyond Negotiation: Towards a Biographic Perspective on Cooperative Design for Therapy

In this paper we argue that design in therapeutic domains (in a broad sense) depends on an understanding of the background for the engagement of the various users involved. It is specifically argued that an understanding of the life transforming process, or trajectory as opposed to design process and rational process of therapy has to be understood and that a possible cornerstone in such an und...