Browsing MIT Theses by Issue Date
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Text to Text : plot unit searches generated from English
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The story of Macbeth centers around revenge. World War I was started by an act of revenge. Even though these two stories are seemingly unrelated, humans use the same concept to draw meaning from them. Plot units, revenge ... -
A comparison of taxonomy generation techniques using bibliometric methods : applied to research strategy formulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This paper investigates the modeling of research landscapes through the automatic generation of hierarchical structures (taxonomies) comprised of terms related to a given research field. Several different taxonomy generation ... -
A matrix based integrated framework for multi disciplinary exploration of cyber-international relations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Cyberspace is the most pervasive and rapidly adopted communication media and the most disruptive until date. It is now indispensable for almost every facet of modern society and touches, practically, everyone by providing ... -
Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Whether through anecdotes, folklore, or formal history, humans learn the lessons and expectations of life from stories. If we are to build intelligent programs that learn as humans do, such programs must understand stories ... -
Story retrieval and comparison using concept patterns
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)To understand a new situation, humans draw from their knowledge of past experiences and events. For a computer to use the same method, it must be able to retrieve stories that shed light on a new situation. Traditional ... -
Learning narrative structure from annotated folktales
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Narrative structure is an ubiquitous and intriguing phenomenon. By virtue of structure we recognize the presence of Villainy or Revenge in a story, even if that word is not actually present in the text. Narrative structure ... -
Unraveling Internet identities : accountability & anonymity at the application layer
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Both anonymity and accountability play crucial roles in sustaining the Internet's functionality, however there is a common misconception that increasing the anonymity of Internet identities necessitates diminishing their ... -
Strategic philanthropy for cyber security : an extended cost-benefit analysis framework to study cybersecurity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The international climate of cyber security is dramatically changing and thus unpredictable. As such, agile yet sustainable solutions are needed, along with an effective and a pragmatic evaluation framework to assess and ... -
Enabling imagination through story alignment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Stories are an essential piece of human intelligence. They exist in countless forms and varieties seamlessly integrated into every facet of our lives. Stories fuel human understanding and our explanations of the world. ... -
Cyber safety : a systems thinking and systems theory approach to managing cyber security risks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)If we are to manage cyber security risks more effectively in today's complex and dynamic Web 2.0 environment, then a new way of thinking is needed to complement traditional approaches. According to Symantec's 2014 Internet ... -
Finding order in a contentious Internet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This inquiry started with the simple question, "Who manages the Internet infrastructure and how?" Since, this question evolved into an evaluation of the routing system and the institutions that manage it. This institutional ...
