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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Good abandonment in mobile and PC internet search
Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
Jane Li, Scott B. Huffman, Akihito Tokuda
SP
2010
IEEE
192views Security Privacy» more  SP 2010»
14 years 10 days ago
How Good Are Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs? A Large Scale Evaluation
—Captchas are designed to be easy for humans but hard for machines. However, most recent research has focused only on making them hard for machines. In this paper, we present wha...
Elie Bursztein, Steven Bethard, Celine Fabry, John...
SIGGRAPH
1998
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
A New Voronoi-based Surface Reconstruction Algorithm
We describe our experience with a new algorithm for the reconstruction of surfaces from unorganized sample points in IR 3. The algorithm is the first for this problem with provab...
Nina Amenta, Marshall W. Bern, Manolis Kamvysselis
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback assumes that most frequent terms in the pseudo-feedback documents are useful for the retrieval. In this study, we re-examine this assumption and show tha...
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen R...
IPM
2008
100views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Global term weights in distributed environments
This paper examines the estimation of global term weights (such as IDF) in information retrieval scenarios where a global view on the collection is not available. In particular, t...
Hans Friedrich Witschel