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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Readability of scanned books in digital libraries
Displaying scanned book pages in a web browser is difficult, due to an array of characteristics of the common user's configuration that compound to yield text that is degrade...
Alexander J. Quinn, Chang Hu, Takeshi Arisaka, Ann...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
ICFP
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Slideshow: functional presentations
Among slide-presentation systems, the dominant application offers lly no abstraction capability. Slideshow, an extension of PLT Scheme, represents our effort over the last several...
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Recognition and classification of noun phrases in queries for effective retrieval
It has been shown that using phrases properly in the document retrieval leads to higher retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we define four types of noun phrases and present an...
Wei Zhang, Shuang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Chaojing Sun...