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VLDB
1998
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Bank of America Case Study: The Information Currency Advantage
This paper describes the external forces that motivate financial institutions to collect, aggregate, analyze, and mine data so that it can be transformed into information, one of ...
Felipe Cariño, Mark Jahnke
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
A case study in database reliability: component types, usage profiles, and testing
Data management lies at the core of most modern information technology deployments. Accordingly, the reliability of the database management system (DBMS) is critical to the reputa...
C. A. Taylor, Mechelle Gittens, Andriy V. Miransky...
FQAS
2004
Springer
86views Database» more  FQAS 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Retrieval Effectiveness of Written and Spoken Queries: An Experimental Evaluation
With the fast growing speech technologies, the world is emerging to a new speech era. Speech recognition has now become a practical technology for real world applications. While so...
Heather Du, Fabio Crestani
COLING
1992
13 years 6 months ago
A Case Study of Natural Language Customisation: The Practical Effects of World Knowledge
This paper proposes a methodology for the eustomisation of natural language interfaces to information retrieval applications. We report a field study in which we tested this metho...
Marilyn A. Walker, Andrew L. Nelson, Phil Stenton
OWLED
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Enhancing Web Portals with Ontology-Based Data Access: The Case Study of South Africa's Accessibility Portal for People with Dis
Abstract. Web portal software is relatively easy to set up and populate from the perspective of the end-user, but it leaves the back-end database devoid of subject domain semantics...
C. Maria Keet, Ronell Alberts, Aurona Gerber, Gibs...