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SIGUCCS
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Usability Testing: A Quick, Cheap, and Effective Method
The University of Portland Office of Computer and Telecommunication Services (CTS) created an Intranet web site for the University community during the summer of 1998. In the summ...
Jerilyn Prescott, Matt Crichton
SIGUCCS
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Bridging Worlds: The IT Support Professional as Interpreter Between Cultures
One result of the action of Moore’s Law, the doubling of IT (Information Technology) power every 18 months, is a widening gap in the understanding of this technology between tho...
Don Rea
SIGUCCS
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Who's Got the Key?
This paper attempts to illuminate several fundamental concepts used in the creation of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). These concepts include encryption, public key cryptograph...
David Henry
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Efficient Distributed Algorithms to Build Inverted Files
We present three distributed algorithms to build global inverted files for very large text collections. The distributed environment we use is a high bandwidth network of workstati...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Edleno Silva de Moura, M...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Re-Examination of Text Categorization Methods
This paper reports a controlled study with statistical signi cance tests on ve text categorization methods: the Support Vector Machines (SVM), a k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) classi er...
Yiming Yang, Xin Liu
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
SCAN: Designing and Evaluating User Interfaces to Support Retrieval From Speech Archives
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The Economics of Search
Hal R. Varian
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Content-Based Retrieval for Music Collections
A content-based retrieval model for tackling the mismatch problems specific to music data is proposed and implemented. The system uses a pitch profile encoding for queries in any ...
Yuen-Hsien Tseng
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Document Expansion for Speech Retrieval
Amit Singhal, Fernando C. N. Pereira
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Visualization of Search Results: A Comparative Evaluation of Text, 2D, and 3D Interfaces
Although there have been many prototypes of visualization in support of information retrieval, there has been little systematic evaluation that distinguishes the benefits of the v...
Marc M. Sebrechts, John Cugini, Sharon J. Laskowsk...