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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Using peer-led team learning to increase participation and success of under-represented groups in introductory computer science
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a program that uses active recruiting and peer-led team learning to try to increase the participation and success of wome...
Susan Horwitz, Susan H. Rodger, Maureen Biggers, D...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
It pays to be picky: an evaluation of thread retrieval in online forums
Online forums host a rich information exchange, often with contributions from many subject matter experts. In this work we evaluate algorithms for thread retrieval in a large and ...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Carbonell
JOC
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Robust Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval
A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a user to retrieve a data item of its choice from a database, such that the servers storing the database do not gain informat...
Amos Beimel, Yoav Stahl
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Compression-based document length prior for language models
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
Javier Parapar, David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro
ACISICIS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Designing Fault Tolerant Web Services Using BPEL
The web services technology provides an approach for developing distributed applications by using simple and well defined interfaces. Due to the flexibility of this architecture, ...
Jim Lau, Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Giul...