This paper describes two empirical experiments investigating the perception of embedded audible hyperlinks, designed using speech and non-speech cues, and their effect on the comprehension of synthetic speech. Results from the first experiment showed high accuracy levels of hyperlink perception and differences in comprehension performance between sentences with hyperlinks and sentences without ...

As a whole, the World Wide Web displays a striking "rich get richer" behavior, with a relatively small number of sites receiving a disproportionately large share of hyperlink references and traffic. However, hidden in this skewed global distribution, we discover a qualitatively different and considerably less biased link distribution among subcategories of pages-for example, among all universit...

The certainty trust relationship of network node behavior has been presented based on graph theory, and a measurement method of trusted-degree is proposed. Because of the uncertainty of trust relationship, this paper has put forward the random trusted-order and firstly introduces the construction of trust relations space (TRS) based on trusted order. Based on all those above, the paper describe...

Original citation: Takahashi, Y. (Yasufumi), Shevchuk, Andrew I., Novak, P. (Pavel), Zhang, Yanjun, Ebejer, Neil, Macpherson, Julie V., Unwin, Patrick R., Pollard, Andrew J., Roy, Debdulal, Clifford, Charles Alexander, Shiku, Hitoshi, Matsue, Tomokazu, Klenerman, David and Korchev, Yuri E.. (2011) Multifunctional nanoprobes for nanoscale chemical imaging and localized chemical delivery at surfa...

Since 2006, after completing a cognitive certifying or recertifying examination, dermatologists are automatically enrolled into Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and can access a personalized electronic table (at www.abderm.org) that presents the requirements over the 10-year cycle. On this web site, diplomates can also pay the annual fee and attest to completion of the various components. Cli...

Sixty deaf and hearing students were asked to search for goods in a Hypertext Supermarket with either graphical or textual links of high typicality, frequency, and familiarity. Additionally, they performed a picture and word categorization task and two working memory span tasks (spatial and verbal). Results showed that deaf students were faster in graphical than in verbal hypertext when the num...

Because of the explosively growing amount of information on the World Wide Web, it is a time-consuming task to find the demanded information. Although many search engines exist to help users search for the information, most of them reveal limited information, because they show the search results in list-based interfaces, and users need to check each entry to have a clear view of the search resu...

The Web can be modeled as a directed graph in which a node represents a web page and an edge represents an hyperlink. Recent studies suggested that despite it chaotic appearance, the Web is highly structured graph, in a statistical sense. In this paper we introduce a new web-like model that incorporates the main features of the web: power law degree distributions for both incoming and outgoing ...

In IR (information retrieval) systems based on the vector space model, the tf-idf scheme is widely used to characterize documents. However, in the case of documents with hyperlink structures such as Web pages, it is necessary to develop a technique for representing the contents of Web pages more accurately by exploiting that of their hyperlinked neighboring pages. In this paper, we first propos...