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SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Personalize web search results with user's location
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Xing Wei, Benoît Dumo...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Can search systems detect users' task difficulty?: some behavioral signals
In this paper, we report findings on how user behaviors vary in tasks with different difficulty levels as well as of different types. Two behavioral signals: document dwell time a...
Jingjing Liu, Chang Liu, Jacek Gwizdka, Nicholas J...
JASIS
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
A study of interface support mechanisms for interactive information retrieval
Advances in search technology have meant that search systems can now offer assistance to users beyond simply retrieving a set of documents. For example, search systems are now cap...
Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven
BMCBI
2008
106views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
SpliceCenter: A suite of web-based bioinformatic applications for evaluating the impact of alternative splicing on RT-PCR, RNAi,
Background: Over 60% of protein-coding genes in vertebrates express mRNAs that undergo alternative splicing. The resulting collection of transcript isoforms poses significant chal...
Michael C. Ryan, Barry Zeeberg, Natasha J. Caplen,...
ATAL
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a Distributed, Environment-Centered Agent Framework
Abstract. This paper will discuss the internal architecture for an agent framework called DECAF (Distributed Environment Centered Agent Framework). DECAF is a software toolkit for ...
John R. Graham, Keith Decker