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CHI
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Knowledge in the head and on the web: using topic expertise to aid search
The importance of background knowledge for effective searching on the Web is not well understood. Participants were given trivia questions on two topics and asked to answer them f...
Geoffrey B. Duggan, Stephen J. Payne
RIAO
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Selecting Automatically the Best Query Translations
In order to search corpora written in two or more languages, the simplest and most efficient approach is to translate the query submitted into the required language(s). To achieve...
Pierre-Yves Berger, Jacques Savoy
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Predicting when browsing context is relevant to search
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
Mandar Rahurkar, Silviu Cucerzan
CIDR
2009
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13 years 10 months ago
SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Predikin and PredikinDB: a computational framework for the prediction of protein kinase peptide specificity and an associated da
Background: We have previously described an approach to predicting the substrate specificity of serine-threonine protein kinases. The method, named Predikin, identifies key conser...
Neil F. W. Saunders, Ross I. Brinkworth, Thomas Hu...