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HEURISTICS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A large neighbourhood search approach to the multi-activity shift scheduling problem
The challenge in shift scheduling lies in the construction of a set of work shifts, which are subject to specific regulations, in order to cover fluctuating staff demands. This pro...
Claude-Guy Quimper, Louis-Martin Rousseau
DEBU
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Rethinking Full-Text Search for Multi-lingual Databases
Textual fields are commonly used in databases and applications to capture details that are difficult to formalize—comments, notes, and product descriptions. With the rise of t...
Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Salim Roukos
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve Web Search
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong
TREC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Candidate and Document Models for Expert Search
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2008 Enterprise track and detail our language modeling-based approaches. For document search, our focus was on query expansion using pro...
Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
COLING
2002
13 years 7 months ago
Searching the Web by Voice
Spoken queries are a natural medium for searching the Web in settings where typing on a keyboard is not practical. This paper describes a speech interface to the Google search eng...
Alexander Franz, Brian Milch