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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Robust web content extraction
We present an empirical evaluation and comparison of two content extraction methods in HTML: absolute XPath expressions and relative XPath expressions. We argue that the relative ...
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Maria E. Orlowska, Tomasz Kacz...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
STMBench7: a benchmark for software transactional memory
Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for controlling concurrency in modern multi-processor architectures. STM aims to be more scalable than explicit coarse...
Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Jan Vitek
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A formal study of information retrieval heuristics
Empirical studies of information retrieval methods show that good retrieval performance is closely related to the use of various retrieval heuristics, such as TF-IDF weighting. On...
Hui Fang, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Bilingual web page and site readability assessment
Readability assessment is a method to measure the difficulty of a piece of text material, and it is widely used in educational field to assist instructors to prepare appropriate m...
Tak Pang Lau, Irwin King
FPLAY
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Interactive accounting simulation environment for accounting education and training
In contrast to traditional teaching-and-learning environments whereby the teacher controls the learning (e.g., teacher-centered), video games present a learner-centered approach t...
Andrew Milner, Andrew Hogue, Bill Kapralos, John F...