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SAMOS
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Accelerating high-level engineering computations by automatic compilation of Geometric Algebra to hardware accelerators
Abstract—Geometric Algebra (GA), a generalization of quaternions, is a very powerful form for intuitively expressing and manipulating complex geometric relationships common to en...
Jens Huthmann, Peter Muller, Florian Stock, Dietma...
COLING
2002
13 years 7 months ago
The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Chin-Yew Lin
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
An uncertainty-aware query selection model for evaluation of IR systems
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
PERVASIVE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a Taxonomy for Ambient Information Systems
We propose a set of design dimensions that constitute the axes of a taxonomy for ambient information systems. The dimensions are based on an investigation of a wide range of resea...
Martin Tomitsch, Karin Kappel, Andreas Lehner, Tho...
SAC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
On search in peer-to-peer file sharing systems
We consider the problem of information retrieval in a peerto-peer file sharing system. We assume that peers are unreliable, metadata are sparse, and queries are short. In light o...
Wai Gen Yee, Ophir Frieder