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W4A
2006
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Dialog generation for voice browsing
In this paper we present our voice browser system, HearSay, which provides efficient access to the World Wide Web to people with visual disabilities. HearSay includes contentbased...
Zan Sun, Amanda Stent, I. V. Ramakrishnan
DASFAA
2010
IEEE
191views Database» more  DASFAA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Answering Top-k Similar Region Queries
Abstract. Advances in web technology have given rise to new information retrieval applications. In this paper, we present a model for geographical region search and call this class...
Chang Sheng, Yu Zheng, Wynne Hsu, Mong-Li Lee, Xin...
MASCOTS
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Improving Ensemble-TCP Performance on Asymmetric Networks
For the World Wide Web, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) are two important protocols. However, interactions between these two pro...
Qian Wu, Carey L. Williamson
ICDCS
1995
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Specifying Weak Sets
nt formal speci cations of a new abstraction, weak sets, which can be used to alleviate high latencies when retrieving data from a wide-area information system like the World Wide...
Jeannette M. Wing, David C. Steere
ADL
1998
Springer
178views Digital Library» more  ADL 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Distributed Digital Library Architecture Incorporating Different Index Styles
The New Zealand Digital Library offers several collections of information over the World Wide Web. Although fulltext indexing is the primary access mechanism, musical collections ...
Rodger J. McNab, Ian H. Witten, Stefan J. Boddie