Yesterday I was having dinner with a friend. He mentioned that he had become addicted to the lectures posted on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) web site. I found this interesting description of TED on their site: TED is all about connections. The connections of ideas and the connections of people. It is based on the insight that to truly understand anything, you need to understand a little bit of everything that surrounds it....
by Xavier Llorà, Anusha Priya, and Rohit Bhargava (2006). To appear in the Special Issue on Learning Classifier Systems of the Natural Computing Journal. Also as IlliGAL TR No. 2006027. Link to the PDF. Abstract Prostate cancer accounts for one-third of noncutaneous cancers diagnosed in US men, and it is a leading cause of cancer-related death. Advances in Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of stained tissue is now able to provide very large data sets describing the chemical properties of the cells forming the prostate tissue....
by Noriko Imafuji Yasui, Xavier Llorà, and David E. Goldberg (2006). Illinois Technical Report No. 2006025. Link to the PDF. Abstract In this paper, we propose some methodologies for delineating topic and discussant transitions in online collaborative environments, more precisely, focus group discussions for product conceptualization. First, we propose KEE (Key Elements Extraction) algorithm, an algorithm for simultaneously finding key terms and key persons in a discussion. Based on KEE algorithm, we propose approaches for analyzing two important factors of discussions: discussion dynamics and emerging social networks....
by Xavier Llorà, Noriko Imafuji Yasui, David E. Goldberg (2006) Abstract This paper proposes AKEE (Adaptable Key Elements Extraction) algorithm for web-log (blog, for short) mining. AKEE enables us to identify significant information in various blog components (e.g., a blog post, a series of blog posts, a set of series of blog posts, etc.). Illinois Technical Report No. 2006024. Link to the PDF.
The new site is here! Besides moving it to Wordpress, we have been working to engineer a site that will allow us to demonstrate some of the human-centered analytic technologies the DISCUS project has created. For each post, now you can analyze it with a single click using the links provided on the left-hand side. The first analytics tool released is based on KeyGraph techniques. Other DISCUS analysis techniques are already on the pipe and will reach the site soon....