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CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
2007
Springer
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
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CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
2007
Springer
Every user has a distinct background and a specific goal when searching for information on the Web. The goal of Web search personalization is to tailor search results to a particu...
128
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CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
2007
Springer
Information retrieval experimentation generally proceeds in a cycle of development, evaluation, and hypothesis testing. Ideally, the evaluation and testing phases should be short ...
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CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
2007
Springer
Hidden markov model (HMM) is frequently used for Pinyin-toChinese conversion. But it only captures the dependency with the preceding character. Higher order markov models can brin...
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CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
2009
ACM
Due to the increasing penetration of mobile phones even into poor communities, mobile payment schemes could bring formal financial services to the "unbanked". However, b...