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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 1 months ago
Rules of Thumb for Information Acquisition from Large and Redundant Data
We develop an abstract model of information acquisition from redundant data. We assume a random sampling process from data which contain information with bias and are interested in...
Wolfgang Gatterbauer
KDD
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Thumbs-Up: a game for playing to rank search results
Human computation is an effective way to channel human effort spent playing games to solving computational problems that are easy for humans but difficult for computers to autom...
Ali Dasdan, Chris Drome, Santanu Kolay, Micah Alpe...
ARCS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptive Object Acquisition
We propose an active vision system for object acquisition. The core of our approach is a reinforcement learning module which learns a strategy to scan an object. The agent moves a...
Gabriele Peters, Claus-Peter Alberts, Markus Bries...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Web-based acquisition of Japanese katakana variants
This paper describes a method of detecting Japanese Katakana variants from a large corpus. Katakana words, which are mainly used as loanwords, cause problems with information retr...
Takeshi Masuyama, Hiroshi Nakagawa
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters
—Restoring data operations after a disaster is a daunting task: how should recovery be performed to minimize data loss and application downtime? Administrators are under consider...
Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer 0002, Ernesto Brau, Ar...