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WWW
2011
ACM
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Context-sensitive query auto-completion
Query auto completion is known to provide poor predictions of the user’s query when her input prefix is very short (e.g., one or two characters). In this paper we show that con...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Naama Kraus
TKDE
2011
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Collaborative Filtering with Personalized Skylines
— Collaborative filtering (CF) systems exploit previous ratings and similarity in user behavior to recommend the top-k objects/records which are potentially most interesting to t...
Ilaria Bartolini, Zhenjie Zhang, Dimitris Papadias
MONET
2011
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Jamming in Wireless Networks Under Uncertainty
— The problem of jamming plays an important role in ensuring the quality and security of wireless communications, especially at this moment when wireless networks are quickly bec...
Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Andrey Garna...
COLING
2010
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Knowing What to Believe (when you already know something)
Although much work in NLP has focused on simply determining what a document means, we also must know whether or not to believe it. Fact-finding algorithms attempt to identify the ...
Jeff Pasternack, Dan Roth
CORR
2011
Springer
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User Modeling Combining Access Logs, Page Content and Semantics
The paper proposes an approach to modeling users of large Web sites based on combining different data sources: access logs and content of the accessed pages are combined with sema...
Blaz Fortuna, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik
CORR
2011
Springer
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Guided Data Repair
In this paper we present GDR, a Guided Data Repair framework that incorporates user feedback in the cleaning process to enhance and accelerate existing automatic repair techniques...
Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Jennifer Nevi...
BIOSTEC
2010
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AffectPhone: A Handset Device to Present User's Emotional State with Warmth/Coolness
We developed AffectPhone, a system that detects a user's emotional state using the GSR, and conveys this state via changes in the temperature (wamrth or coolness) of the back ...
Ken Iwasaki, Takashi Miyaki, Jun Rekimoto
ACCV
2010
Springer
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Interactive Event Search through Transfer Learning
Activity videos are widespread on the Internet but current video search is limited to text tags due to limitations in recognition systems. One of the main reasons for this limitati...
Antony Lam, Amit K. Roy Chowdhury, Christian R. Sh...
IJACTAICIT
2010
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Modeling and Simulation of a Pervasive Multimodal Multimedia Computing System for Visually-Impaired Users
Using multimodality in a computing system is advantageous in the sense that it makes computing more accessible to a wide range of users including those with impairments. Our work ...
Ali Awde, Moeiz Miraoui, Chakib Tadj, Yacine Belli...
ECCC
2010
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Efficient Semantic Communication via Compatible Beliefs
In previous works, Juba and Sudan [6] and Goldreich, Juba and Sudan [4] considered the idea of "semantic communication", wherein two players, a user and a server, attemp...
Brendan Juba, Madhu Sudan