118 research outputs found
A Simple Method to Produce Algorithmic MIDI Music based on Randomness, Simple Probabilities and Multi-Threading
This paper introduces a simple method for producing multichannel MIDI music
that is based on randomness and simple probabilities. One distinctive feature
of the method is that it produces and sends in parallel to the sound card more
than one unsynchronized channels by exploiting the multi-threading capabilities
of general purpose programming languages. As consequence the derived sound
offers a quite ``full" and ``unpredictable" acoustic experience to the
listener. Subsequently the paper reports the results of an evaluation with
users. The results were very surprising: the majority of users responded that
they could tolerate this music in various occasions.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
X-ENS: Semantic Enrichment of Web Search Results at Real-Time
While more and more semantic data are published on the Web, an important question is how typical web users can access and exploit this body of knowledge. Although, existing interaction paradigms in semantic search hide the complexity behind an easy-to-use interface, they have not managed to cover common search needs. In this paper, we present X-ENS (eXplore ENtities in Search), a web search application that enhances the classical, keyword-based, web searching with semantic information, as a means to combine the pros of both Semantic Web standards and common Web Searching. X-ENS identifies entities of interest in the snippets of the top search results which can be further exploited in a faceted interaction scheme, and thereby can help the user to limit the - often very large - search space to those hits that contain a particular piece of information. Moreover, X-ENS permits the exploration of the identified entities by exploiting semantic repositories
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