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2008
ACM
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Ranking refinement and its application to information retrieval
We consider the problem of ranking refinement, i.e., to improve the accuracy of an existing ranking function with a small set of labeled instances. We are, particularly, intereste...
Rong Jin, Hamed Valizadegan, Hang Li
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2008
ACM
15 years 6 days ago
Learning to classify short and sparse text & web with hidden topics from large-scale data collections
This paper presents a general framework for building classifiers that deal with short and sparse text & Web segments by making the most of hidden topics discovered from larges...
Xuan Hieu Phan, Minh Le Nguyen, Susumu Horiguchi
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2008
ACM
15 years 6 days ago
A combinatorial allocation mechanism with penalties for banner advertising
Most current banner advertising is sold through negotiation thereby incurring large transaction costs and possibly suboptimal allocations. We propose a new automated system for se...
Uriel Feige, Nicole Immorlica, Vahab S. Mirrokni, ...
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2008
ACM
15 years 6 days ago
Generating hypotheses from the web
Hypothesis generation is a crucial initial step for making scientific discoveries. This paper addresses the problem of automatically discovering interesting hypotheses from the we...
Wei Jin, Rohini K. Srihari, Abhishek Singh
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2008
ACM
15 years 6 days ago
Sessionlock: securing web sessions against eavesdropping
Typical web sessions can be hijacked easily by a network eavesdropper in attacks that have come to be designated "sidejacking." The rise of ubiquitous wireless networks,...
Ben Adida
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2008
ACM
15 years 6 days ago
How people use the web on mobile devices
This paper describes a series of user studies on how people use the Web via mobile devices. The data primarily comes from contextual inquiries with 47 participants between 2004 an...
Yanqing Cui, Virpi Roto
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2008
ACM
15 years 6 days ago
Automatically refining the wikipedia infobox ontology
The combined efforts of human volunteers have recently extracted numerous facts from Wikipedia, storing them as machine-harvestable object-attribute-value triples in Wikipedia inf...
Fei Wu, Daniel S. Weld
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2008
ACM
15 years 6 days ago
Dtwiki: a disconnection and intermittency tolerant wiki
Wikis have proven to be a valuable tool for collaboration and content generation on the web. Simple semantics and ease-of-use make wiki systems well suited for meeting many emergi...
Bowei Du, Eric A. Brewer
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2008
ACM
15 years 6 days ago
Computing minimum cost diagnoses to repair populated DL-based ontologies
Ontology population is prone to cause inconsistency because the populating process is imprecise or the populated data may conflict with the original data. By assuming that the int...
Jianfeng Du, Yi-Dong Shen
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2008
ACM
15 years 6 days ago
Dissemination of heterogeneous xml data
A lot of recent research has focused on the content-based dissemination of XML data. However, due to the heterogeneous data schemas used by different data publishers even for data...
Yuan Ni, Chee Yong Chan