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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
SEMWEB
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Rapid Benchmarking for Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems
Abstract. We present a method for rapid development of benchmarks for Semantic Web knowledge base systems. At the core, we have a synthetic data generation approach for OWL that is...
Sui-Yu Wang, Yuanbo Guo, Abir Qasem, Jeff Heflin
ELPUB
1998
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Towards an Information-Rich Society? Or an Information-Overloaded One? (Is the Media Becoming More Important Than the Message?)
The rapid growth in all forms of electronic publishing is creating many new problems – both technical and socio-economic. This paper examines some of these from three different ...
T. M. R. Ellis
ICADL
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Using Automatic Metadata Extraction to Build a Structured Syllabus Repository
Syllabi are important documents created by instructors for students. Students use syllabi to find information and to prepare for class. Instructors often need to find similar syl...
Xiaoyan Yu, Manas Tungare, Weiguo Fan, Manuel A. P...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel