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CHES
1999
Springer
133views Cryptology» more  CHES 1999»
15 years 4 months ago
Random Number Generators Founded on Signal and Information Theory
The strength of a cryptographic function depends on the amount of entropy in the cryptovariables that are used as keys. Using a large key length with a strong algorithm is false co...
David Paul Maher, Robert J. Rance
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ACL
1996
15 years 1 months ago
On Reversing the Generation Process in Optimality Theory
Optimality Theory, a constraint-based phonology and morphology paradigm, has allowed linguists to make elegant analyses of many phenomena, including infixation and reduplication. ...
J. Eric Fosler
HICSS
2006
IEEE
119views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
15 years 5 months ago
Increasing Relevance of Smoking Cessation Messages in an Online Software Agent Environment
An online software agent that helps smokers quit was designed and tested. We created a library of categorized smoking cessation messages using meta-data corresponding to the Stage...
Todd Shimoda, Linda Stapel
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Intuition-supporting visualization of user's performance based on explicit negative higher-order relevance
Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin, Ari Pirk...