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CLEIEJ
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Hybrid Rugosity Mesostructures (HRMs) for fast and accurate rendering of fine haptic detail
The haptic rendering of surface mesostructure (fine relief features) in dense triangle meshes requires special structures, equipment, and high sampling rates for detailed perceptio...
Víctor Theoktisto, Marta Fairén Gonz...
WISE
2002
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Cluster-Based Delta Compression of a Collection of Files
Delta compression techniques are commonly used to succinctly represent an updated version of a file with respect to an earlier one. In this paper, we study the use of delta compr...
Zan Ouyang, Nasir D. Memon, Torsten Suel, Dimitre ...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Cross-lingual relevance models
We propose a formal model of Cross-Language Information Retrieval that does not rely on either query translation or document translation. Our approach leverages recent advances in...
Victor Lavrenko, Martin Choquette, W. Bruce Croft
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Ad-hoc aggregations of ranked lists in the presence of hierarchies
A variety of web sites and web based services produce textual lists at varying time granularities ranked according to several criteria. For example, Google Trends produces lists o...
Nilesh Bansal, Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas