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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
KDD
2012
ACM
292views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
11 years 9 months ago
Online allocation of display ads with smooth delivery
Display ads on the Internet are often sold in bundles of thousands or millions of impressions over a particular time period, typically weeks or months. Ad serving systems that ass...
Anand Bhalgat, Jon Feldman, Vahab S. Mirrokni
EWHCI
1993
13 years 11 months ago
Applying the Wizard of Oz Technique to the Study of Multimodal Systems
The Wizard of Oz (WOz) technique is an experimental evaluation mechanism. It allows the observation of a user operating an apparently fully functioning system whose missing service...
Daniel Salber, Joëlle Coutaz
ICALP
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Smoothed Analysis of Balancing Networks
Abstract In a load balancing network each processor has an initial collection of unit-size jobs, tokens, and in each round, pairs of processors connected by balancers split their l...
Tobias Friedrich, Thomas Sauerwald, Dan Vilenchik
ARCS
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Empirical Performance Models for Java Workloads
Abstract. Java is widely deployed on a variety of processor architectures. Consequently, an understanding of microarchitecture level Java performance is critical to optimize curren...
Pradeep Rao, Kazuaki Murakami