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WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A search engine for natural language applications
Many modern natural language-processing applications utilize search engines to locate large numbers of Web documents or to compute statistics over the Web corpus. Yet Web search e...
Michael J. Cafarella, Oren Etzioni
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Measuring system performance and topic discernment using generalized adaptive-weight mean
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
Chung Tong Lee, Vishwa Vinay, Eduarda Mendes Rodri...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
QR-Codes for the chronically homeless
We propose a system to use QR codes and cheap cell phones to alleviate some challenges faced by the chronically homeless. We propose combining the affordability, simplicity and po...
Meseret Gebrekristos, Ahmad Aljadaan, Kumud Bihani
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Multimedia streaming in large-scale sensor networks with mobile swarms
Abstract-- Sensor networking technologies have developed very rapidly in the last ten years. In many situations, high quality multimedia streams may be required for providing detai...
Mario Gerla, Kaixin Xu
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Active Sampling for Rank Learning via Optimizing the Area under the ROC Curve
Abstract. Learning ranking functions is crucial for solving many problems, ranging from document retrieval to building recommendation systems based on an individual user’s prefer...
Pinar Donmez, Jaime G. Carbonell