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ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Finding Wormholes with Flickr Geotags
We propose a kernel convolution method to predict similar locations (wormholes) based on human travel behaviour. A scaling parameter can be used to define a set of relevant users t...
Maarten Clements, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vri...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Getting the right design and the design right
We present a study comparing usability testing of a single interface versus three functionally equivalent but stylistically distinct designs. We found that when presented with a s...
Maryam Tohidi, William Buxton, Ronald Baecker, Abi...
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using RankBoost to compare retrieval systems
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...
Huyen-Trang Vu, Patrick Gallinari
SIGIR
1996
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Viewing Stemming as Recall Enhancement
Previous research on stemming has shown both positive and negative effects on retrieval performance. This paper describes an experiment in which several linguistic and non-linguis...
Wessel Kraaij, Renée Pohlmann
EATIS
2007
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
Techniques for location selection on a mobile device
In the current paper we present a field comparison of techniques for selecting one's current location in mobile locationbased systems. Four location selection techniques are ...
Mika Luimula, Kirsti Sääskilahti, Timo P...