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ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Better vocabularies for assistive communication aids: connecting terms using semantic networks and untrained annotators
The difficulties of navigating vocabulary in an assistive communication device are exacerbated for individuals with lexical access disorders like those due to aphasia. We present ...
Sonya S. Nikolova, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Christia...
GECCO
2009
Springer
153views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
An evaporation mechanism for dynamic and noisy multimodal optimization
Dealing with imprecise information is a common characteristic in real-world problems. Specifically, when the source of the information are physical sensors, a level of noise in t...
Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Josep Lluís Ar...
VLDB
1994
ACM
114views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
14 years 14 days ago
On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies
In this paper we address the problem of devising a set of indexes for a nested object hierarchy in an object-oriented database to improve the overall system performance. It is not...
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Ming-Syan Chen, Philip S. Y...
CLEF
2006
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2006
This paper details the participation of the XLDB group from the University of Lisbon at the GeoCLEF task of CLEF 2006. We tested text mining methods that make use of an ontology t...
Bruno Martins, Nuno Cardoso, Marcirio Silveira Cha...
DAIS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
On the Value of Random Opinions in Decentralized Recommendation
Abstract. As the amount of information available to users continues to grow, filtering wanted items from unwanted ones becomes a dominant task. To this end, various collaborative-f...
Elth Ogston, Arno Bakker, Maarten van Steen