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Alain Désilets
Researcher at National Research Council
Publications - 15
Citations - 505
Alain Désilets is an academic researcher from National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personal wiki & Hypertext. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 15 publications receiving 477 citations.
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Tell Me a Story
TL;DR: The next time you find yourself struggling with the details of your software's functionality, back up and tell a story to keep you on the right track.
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Are wikis usable
TL;DR: This paper studied the usability of a wiki through observation and problem-solving interaction with several children who used the tool to collaboratively author hypertext stories over several sessions, and indicated that the major usability problems were related to hyperlink management.
Wiki as a Tool for Web-based Collaborative Story Telling in Primary School: a Case Study
Alain Désilets,Sébastien Paquet +1 more
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Semantic Similarity for Detecting Recognition Errors in Automatic Speech Transcripts
Diana Inkpen,Alain Désilets +1 more
TL;DR: This paper presents an approach that detects recognition errors by identifying words which are semantic outliers with respect to other words in the transcript, and shows that it can significantly reduce the number of errors in content words, with the trade-off of losing some good content words.
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Translation the Wiki way
TL;DR: It is argued that translating in this "Wiki Way", may also be useful in some traditional industrial settings, as a way of dealing better with the fast and ever-changing nature of the authors' modern internet world.