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IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum
CAEPIA
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Combining Human Perception and Geometric Restrictions for Automatic Pedestrian Detection
Automatic detection systems do not perform as well as human observers, even on simple detection tasks. A potential solution to this problem is training vision systems on appropriat...
Modesto Castrillón Santana, Quoc C. Vuong
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Pessimism Is Mostly the Best for the Expanding Ring Search in Wireless Networks
— Global flooding and expanding ring search are two commonly used methods in search for an interested object in multi-hop wireless networks. While global flooding is simple, it...
Kui Wu, Hong-Chuan Yang, Fulu Li
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Shaping Event-Based Haptic Transients Via an Improved Understanding of Real Contact Dynamics
Haptic interactions with stiff virtual surfaces feel more realistic when a short-duration transient is added to the spring force at contact. But how should this event-based transi...
Jonathan Fiene, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
TREC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2007 QA Track
Abstract: In our participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering (QA) track, we focused on three tasks. First, we processed the new blog corpus and converted it to formats which ...
Katja Hofmann, Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khal...