Sparklis is a Semantic Web tool that helps users explore SPARQL endpoints by guiding them in the interactive building of questions and answers, from simple ones to complex ones. It combines the fine-grained guidance of faceted search, most of the expressivity of SPARQL, and the readability of (controlled) natural languages. No endpoint-specific configuration is necessary, and no knowledge of SP...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are bacteria which are resistant to certain antimicrobials which can cause, among other diseases, wound infections and inflammation of the respiratory system in humans. In the past, these bacteria were mainly found in hospitals where they were transmitted via contact from person to person. In recent years, there have been increased numbers of c...

The interrogative construal of explanations is one of the earliest analytical devices in the philosophy of science. The general idea is still with us, in part because Hempel and Oppenheim endorsed it in their classic formal account. But although their work starts with the claim that explaining phenomena amounts to answering why-questions, the interrogative perspective did not find its way to ei...

Community question answering (CQA) has become a new paradigm for seeking and sharing information. In CQA sites, users can ask and answer questions, and provide feedback (e.g., by voting or commenting) to these questions/answers. In this article, we propose the early detection of high-quality CQA questions/answers. Such detection can help discover a high-impact question that would be widely reco...

Our ongoing project is aimed at improving information access to narrow-domain collections of questions and answers. This poster demonstrates how out-of-the-box tools and domain dictionaries can be applied to community question answering (CQA) content in health domain. This approach can be used to improve user interfaces and search over CQA data, as well as to evaluate content quality. The study...

Young children respond to their interlocutors more slowly than adults do, and their timing skills tend to break down further as more speakers join the conversation (Lieberman and Garvey, 1977; Garvey and Berninger, 1981; Dunn and Shatz, 1989; Smith, 2010). In learning to time their utterances in an adult-like way, children must firmly grasp timing conventions, the ability to project turn-end bo...

Android and iSO are the two mobile platforms present in almost all smartphones build during last years. Developing an application that targets both platforms is a challenge. A traditional way is to build two di‚erent apps, one in Java for Android, the other in Objective-C for iOS. Xamarin is a framework for developing Android and iOS apps which allows developers to share most of the application...

The growing use of the internet for collaboration, and of numeric and symbolic software to perform calculations it is impossible to do by hand, not only augment the capabilities of mathematicians, but also afford new ways of observing what they do. In this essay we look at four case studies to see what we can learn about the everyday practice of mathematics: the polymath experiments for the col...

It has become increasingly necessary to motivate and actively involve users to provide quality feedback for the development of future versions of applications and services within whatever institution is at issue. For this purpose we have developed an E-Quiz game to accelerate the process of learning, understanding and the successful usage of new technologies and applications. The E-Quiz is base...

Community based Question Answering (CQA) services are defined as dedicated platforms for users to respond to other users’ questions, resulting in the building of a community where users share and interactively give ratings to questions and answers (Liu et al., 2008). CQA services are emerging as a valuable information resource that is rich not only in the expertise of the user community but als...