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CHI
1993
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
An evaluation of earcons for use in auditory human-computer interfaces
An evaluation of earcons was carried out to see whether they are an effective means of communicating information in sound. An initial experiment showed that earcons were better th...
Stephen A. Brewster, Peter C. Wright, Alistair D. ...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Connecting with kids: so what's new?
From pre-schools to high schools, at home and in museums, the educational community has embraced the use of computers as a teaching tool. Yet many institutions will simply install...
Lori L. Scarlatos, Amy Bruckman, Allison Druin, Mi...
RTA
2010
Springer
14 years 15 days ago
Automata for Data Words and Data Trees
Data words and data trees appear in verification and XML processing. The term “data” means that positions of the word, or tree, are decorated with elements of an infinite set...
Mikolaj Bojanczyk
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters
Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...
Frederick Reiss, Tapas Kanungo
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Named entity normalization in user generated content
Named entity recognition is important for semantically oriented retrieval tasks, such as question answering, entity retrieval, biomedical retrieval, trend detection, and event and...
Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Maarten Mar...