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Capturing and indexing rehearsals: the design and usage of a digital archive of performing arts
(2015-09-28)
Preserving the cultural heritage of the performing arts raises difficult and sensitive issues, as each performance is unique by nature and the juxtaposition between the performers and the audience cannot be easily recorded. ...
Liberal neutrality : a re-evaluation : périodes de discussion ; Montréal, Canada, 1-3 mai 2008
(Université de Montréal. Centre de recherche en éthique, 2008-05-15)
This is the audio recording of all discussion sessions of the International Conference on the Re-evaluation of Liberal Neutrality organized by CRÉUM, Montreal May 1-3 2008. (The conference announcement is at http://www.c ...
Text Summarization by Sentence Extraction and Syntactic Pruning
(2005-08)
Nous présentons une méthode hybride pour le résumé de texte, en combinant l'extraction de phrases et l'élagage syntaxique des phrases extraites. L'élagage syntaxique est effectué sur la base d’une analyse complète des ...
The Character as Subjective Interface
(Springer International Publishing, 2016-10-22)
This paper re-frames virtual interactive characters as " subjective interfaces " with the purpose of highlighting original affordances for interactive story-telling through conversation. This notion is theoretically unpacked ...
Health and Literacy: The Mini-Med School and the Literacy Foundation Working Together to Reach Native Children
(2016-05-18)
The Mini-Med School (MMS) aims to motivate Native children to stay in school, introduce them to the health professions and encourage them to have healthy living practices. As reading skills play a major role in student ...
Who influence the music tastes of adolescents? A study on interpersonal influence in social networks
(ACM, 2012)
Research on music information behavior demonstrates that people rely primarily on others to discover new music. This paper reports on a qualitative study aiming at exploring more in-depth how music information circulates ...
“When I Grow Up I Want to be a Doctor”: Promoting Atikamekw Children’s Interest for Health Professions Through a Book Collection
(2015-06-20)
Introduction: Aboriginal peoples are underrepresented within the healthcare professions, and recruitment of Aboriginal students has become a priority for medical schools in Canada. Because of very low high-school completion ...
A Document Browsing Tool Based on Book Indexes
(2004-08)
This research project is a contribution to the global field of information retrieval, specifically, to develop tools to enable information access in digital documents. We recognize the need to provide the user with flexible ...
Citation rhetoric examined
(King’s College. Office for Humanities Communication; Centre for Computing in the Humanities., 2010)
In his influential monograph «The Rhetoric of Citation Systems», Connors (1999) elaborates on the principle that scholars working with different forms of citation find themselves thinking differently, since the citation ...
Dark waters : spotlight on immersion
(Eurosis, 2005)
This paper combines several empirical studies and some theoretical research to shed some light on the dark, undefined waters in which we plunge when we are “immersed”. Immersion, across all media, comes in three different ...