From: Todd D Millstein (todd@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 09:56:20 PST
FYI, this could be a useful resource at some point.
Todd
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:37:31 -0800
From: Pedro M Domingos <pedrod@cs.washington.edu>
To: uw-ai@cs.washington.edu
Cc: mattr@cs.washington.edu, pedrod@cs.washington.edu
Subject: General.bib: The caterpillar turns into a butterfly
*** Hate typing in bibliography entries? Help yourself, and help our
project on mass collaboration, by surfing to www.bibserv.org. ***
You're probably familiar with the general.bib file (at least if you've
been at UW for a while). This is a BibTex file that we all add our
bibliography entries to, so they can be used by everyone. General.bib
is a lot better than nothing, but it's also a bit of a mess, and not
very convenient to use. Well, no more! We've created BibServ, which is
general.bib done right. Cruise to www.bibserv.org, upload your bib
file in BibTex format or from EndNote, and start managing your
bibliography online, with a nice search interface. Intelligent
algorithms select the results you get from the common pool if you ask
for an entry that's not in your personal file. These algorithms are
based on each user selecting a set of other users or sources s/he
trusts to provide good entries, producing a graph that we then use to
compute an implicit trust of every user in every other user. In
addition to general.bib, we've already provided the entire contents of
CiteSeer, DBLP, and others, for a total of over half a million entries.
We're also trying to write a paper on this for WWW-2003, due in a
couple of weeks. So we'd be forever grateful if you could upload your
file and specify your trusts within the next few days. You can also
start using BibServ right away, but we'll be looking for volunteers to
test the system more explicitly in a week or so. In addition, please
email us any comments or suggestions you have! We'll be improving the
system continuously over the coming weeks and months, and your
feedback is invaluable. The medium-term goal of this project is to
provide a bibliography service not just for the UW AI group, but for
the world. You can help us bootstrap it! Just click on
and take it for a spin.
Happy bib finding,
Pedro & Matt
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