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Lawrence Birnbaum
Researcher at Northwestern University
Publications - 174
Citations - 4217
Lawrence Birnbaum is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Web page & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 174 publications receiving 4130 citations. Previous affiliations of Lawrence Birnbaum include Ford Motor Company & PARC.
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The organization of expert systems, a tutorial☆
Mark J. Stefik,Janice S. Aikins,Robert Balzer,John Benoit,Lawrence Birnbaum,Frederick Hayes-Roth,Earl D. Sacerdoti +6 more
TL;DR: The assumptions of this organization are relaxed, one at a time, in case study of ten more sophisticated organizational prescriptions, which give techniques for dealing with unreliable data and time-varying data.
Patent
Automatic method and system for formulating and transforming representations of context used by information services
TL;DR: In this article, an information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user is presented, where the system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate a context representation.
Proceedings Article
TagAssist: Automatic tag suggestion for blog posts
TL;DR: A system called TagAssist that provides tag suggestions for new blog posts by utilizing existing tagged posts is described, able to increase the quality of suggested tags by performing lossless compression over existing tag data.
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Information access in context
TL;DR: Watson is presented, a system which gathers contextual information in the form of the text of the document the user is manipulating, in order to proactively retrieve documents from distributed information repositories related to task at hand, as well as process explicit requests in the context of this task.
Patent
Method and system for assessing relevant properties of work contexts for use by information services
TL;DR: In this paper, an information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user is presented, where the system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation to generate queries or search terms for conducting information search.