Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181.
I don’t understand most of this yet.
Hmm, needs more thought.
Wearable computing application: memory augmentation (personal
information management, elderly)
problems facing wearable computing (re information
extraction/retrieval):
- SPEECH-DRIVEN IMPLICIT QUERIES. A wearable computer can assist
human-human interaction by monitoring keywords in the conversation
and suggesting relevant information, which will be presented in the
background (visual, monophonic audio, spatially-located audio). A
limited-vocabulary speaker-dependent speech engine recognizes names
and keywords associated with personal information management while
the wearer talks to other people. For example, the user might say,
“Let me look at my schedule for Tuesday.” The system will recognize
“TUESDAY” and display a link for this Tuesday’s schedule. The user
can then key in further input or use structured voice commands to
navigate through the data. To avoid confusion with the ongoing
human-human conversation, human-computer interaction should be
structured and clearly separate. (*Note*: I think I want to work on
this for my PhD. Implicit queries for personal information
management.)
- ONLINE INTERACTION, OFFLINE DICTATION. A wearable computer can be
used to record everything you say so that you can process it later.
The speech stream from a directional microphone includes both
dialogue with the wearable computer and dialogue with other
entities. Online use involves limited-vocabulary speech recognition.
The full speech stream can be stored on the hard disk and tagged on
the fly with markers for later transcription using a
large-vocabulary speech recognition engine. The post-processing of
the text stream can be performed off-line and need not be
real-time.
- EXPLICIT QUERIES: IR, TEXT SUMMARIZATION. Explicit information
retrieval with text summarization is necessary in order to deal with
information overload. Both exact and fuzzy searches need to be
supported. Topics may need to be mapped using an ontology in order
to take advantage of communal knowledge or search through personal
information. Output needs to be summarized; browsing through a
webpage to find an answer is inefficient and requires too much
attention. However, explicit queries against personal data stores
cannot take advantage of the redundancy of the Web, and the
wearable computer will need fuzzy search capabilities. (This is hard!)
Ooooh, pretty…
| M | CS21A-B | 8:30 | 9:30 | F-227 (lecture) |
| M | CS110-A | 10:30 |11:30 | CTC215 | |
| M | CS21A-G | 11:30 |12:30 | F-228 (mis) | |
| M | CS139.3 | 1:30 | 4:30 | |
| W | CS21A-B | 8:30 | 9:30 | F-227 (lecture) |
| W | CS110-A | 10:30 |11:30 | CTC215 | |
| W | CS21A-G | 11:30 |12:30 | F-228 (mis) | |
| W | CS139.3 | 1:30 | 2:30 | . |
| F | CS21A-B | 7:30 | 9:30 | F-227 (lab) |
| F | CS110-A | 10:30 |11:30 | CTC215 | |
| F | CS21A-G | 11:30 |12:30 | F-228 (mis) | |
| F | CS139.3 | 1:30 | 2:30 | . |
| F | CS21A-A | 2:30 | 4:30 | F-227 (lab for Dr. Sarmenta) |
| T | CS110-B | 7:30 | 9:00 | F-227 |
| H | CS110-B | 7:30 | 9:00 | F-227 |
I’m trying to see if someone else can take CS110-B, so that I don’t
have TTh classes.
| chary | cautious wary |
| cloture | closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting |
| coeval | of the same period coexisting |
| countervail | counterbalance |
| desuetude | cessation of use disuse |
| edacious | voracious devouring |
| encomium | warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric |
| epicurean | devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment) |
| expatiate | to roam wander freely |
| expiation | ending expiring |
| exscind | to cut out cut away |
| facetious | humorous funny jocular |
| finical | too fussy about food clothing etc. |
| foment | put smth warm (to lessen the pain) (i always thought of this as fomenting rebellion) |
| froward | intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn |
| fulmination | bitter protest |
| gaucherie | socially awkward tactless behavior |
| hermetic | sealed by fusion (don’t think of mages) |
| imbroglio | complicated and embarrassing situation |
| inchoate | not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary |
| limn | paint portray |
| lucubrate | write in scholarly fashion |
| luculent | easily understood lucid clear |
| macerate | make or become soft by soaking in water |
| maladroit | tactless clumsy |
| minatory | menacing threatening |
| nostrum | a quack remedy an untested cure |
| nugatory | trifling/worthless |
| obloquy | abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation |
| odium | contempt dislike aversion |
| opprobrious | showing scorn or reproach |
| paean | song of praise or triumph |
| palliate | lessen the severity of |
| panegyric | formal praise eulogy |
| peccadillo | small sin small weakness in one’s character |
| peregrination | traveling about wandering |
| picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers |
| piquant | agreeably pungent stimulating |
| probity | uprightness incorruptibility principle |
| prolix | tiring because too long |
| propinquity | nearness in time or place affinity of nature |
| provident | frugal looking to the future |
| puissance | strength |
| pusillanimous | cowardly craven |
| quotidian | banal everyday |
| raconteur | person who tells anecdotes |
| recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
| recondite | little known abstruse |
| recreancy | cowardice a cowardly giving up |
| refractory | stubborn unmanageable untractable |
| repine | at be discontented with |
| restive | refusing to move reluctant to be controlled |
| salubrious | healthful |
| salutary | remedial wholesome causing improvement |
| saturnine | gloomy dark sullen morose |
| sedulous | persevering |
| sententious | short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs |
| sere | make hard and without feeling |
| somatic | of the body |
| turpitude | wickedness shamefulness |
| tyro | tiro beginner |
| virago | a loud domineering woman a scold or nag |
| vitiate | lower the quality weaken the strength |