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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
IIE
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Towards a Blended Learning Model for Teaching and Learning Computer Programming: A Case Study
Blended learning is becoming an attractive model in higher education as new innovative information technologies are becoming increasingly available. However, just blending face-to-...
Said Hadjerrouit
AMR
2005
Springer
83views Multimedia» more  AMR 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Toward Consistent Evaluation of Relevance Feedback Approaches in Multimedia Retrieval
Many different communities have conducted research on the efficacy of relevance feedback in multimedia information systems. Unlike text IR, performance evaluation of multimedia IR...
Xiangyu Jin, James C. French, Jonathan Michel
CCS
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Toward practical authorization-dependent user obligation systems
Many authorization system models include some notion of obligation. Little attention has been given to user obligations that depend on and affect authorizations. However, to be u...
Murillo Pontual, Omar Chowdhury, William H. Winsbo...
JMLR
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Near-Optimal Sensor Placements in Gaussian Processes: Theory, Efficient Algorithms and Empirical Studies
When monitoring spatial phenomena, which can often be modeled as Gaussian processes (GPs), choosing sensor locations is a fundamental task. There are several common strategies to ...
Andreas Krause, Ajit Paul Singh, Carlos Guestrin