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Record W1821285649 · doi:10.14288/1.0051594

User models for intent-based authoring

2009· article· en· W1821285649 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Collections · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultimedia Communication and Technology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceInteractivityRendering (computer graphics)ExploitHuman–computer interactionAuthoring systemUser interfaceSelection (genetic algorithm)MultimediaPresentation (obstetrics)World Wide WebProcess (computing)Artificial intelligenceProgramming language

Abstract

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Authoring is the collection, selection, preparation and presentation of information to one or more readers by an author. The thesis takes a new, critical look at traditional approaches to authoring, by asking what knowledge is required and at which stages of the process. From this perspective, traditional authoring is seen to entrench an early commitment to both form and content. Although the late binding of form is now commonplace in structured document preparation systems, a similar delay in the binding of content is necessary to achieve user-tailored interaction. The authoring paradigm we have developed to service this goal is called intent-based authoring, because the author supplies at compile-time a communicative goal, or intent. Just as SGML editors and HTML browsers defer rendering decisions until run-time by referring to a local stylesheet, intent-based authoring systems defer content-selection decisions until runtime when they refer to models of both author and reader(s). This thesis shows that techniques from artificial intelligence can be developed and used to acquire, represent and exploit such models. Probabilistic abduction is used to recognize user models, and cost-based abduction to design tailored presentations. These techniques are combined in a single framework for best-first recognition and design. These reasoning techniques are further allied with an interaction paradigm we call scrutability, whereby users critique the model in pursuit of better presentations; users see a critical subset of the model determined by sensitivity analysis and can change values through a graphical user interface. The interactivity is modelled to ensure that representations of the user model to the user are made in the most perceptually salient manner. A prototype for intent-based video authoring is described. Video is used as a test medium because it is a "worst case" temporally linear medium; a viable solution to video authoring problems should apply easily to more tractable traditional media. The primary contribution of this dissertation is to the field of applied artificial intelligence, specifically to the emerging field of user modelling. The central contribution is the intent-based authoring framework for separating intent from content.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.491
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.101
GPT teacher head0.392
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it