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Macademia: semantic visualization of research interests

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The Macademia website promotes faculty collaboration and research by visualizing faculty research interests as a dynamic "constellation."Semantic similarity inference algorithms power the site's visualization, allowing users to spatially browse related research interests, and researchers who have those interests.

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    IUI '11: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
    February 2011
    504 pages
    ISBN:9781450304191
    DOI:10.1145/1943403

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