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MMS
2012
11 years 11 months ago
Mixed reality web service platform
This paper presents a Web service platform for building augmented and mixed reality solutions. The platform, MRS-WS, allows clients to create, retrieve and modify augmented reality...
Petri Selonen, Petros Belimpasakis, Yu You, Timo P...
MMS
2012
11 years 11 months ago
Privacy-sensitive recognition of group conversational context with sociometers
Recognizing the conversational context in which group interactions unfold has applications in machines that support collaborative work and perform automatic social inference using ...
Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Taemie Kim, Alex Pentland, D...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Frontiers, challenges, and opportunities for information retrieval: Report from SWIRL 2012 the second strategic workshop on info
During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Mark...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation
Many important search tasks require multiple search sessions to complete. Tasks such as travel planning, large purchases, or job searches can span hours, days, or even weeks. Inev...
Eugene Agichtein, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Will this #hashtag be popular tomorrow?
Hashtags are widely used in Twitter to define a shared context for events or topics. In this paper, we aim to predict hashtag popularity in near future (i.e., next day). Given a ...
Zongyang Ma, Aixin Sun, Gao Cong
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Effect of written instructions on assessor agreement
Assessors frequently disagree on the topical relevance of documents. How much of this disagreement is due to ambiguity in assessment instructions? We have two assessors assess TRE...
William Webber, Bryan Toth, Marjorie Desamito
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Automatic term mismatch diagnosis for selective query expansion
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Learning to predict response times for online query scheduling
Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto, Iadh Ounis
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
To index or not to index: time-space trade-offs in search engines with positional ranking functions
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Diego Arroyuelo, Senén González, Mau...