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SOFSEM
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Spatial Selection of Sparse Pivots for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces
Similarity search is a fundamental operation for applications that deal with unstructured data sources. In this paper we propose a new pivot-based method for similarity search, ca...
Oscar Pedreira, Nieves R. Brisaboa
ADC
2006
Springer
158views Database» more  ADC 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Dimensionality reduction in patch-signature based protein structure matching
Searching bio-chemical structures is becoming an important application domain of information retrieval. This paper introduces a protein structure matching problem and formulates i...
Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zhou, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza
HUC
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Serendipitous family stories: using findings from a study on family communication to share family history
Storytelling and sharing family histories are important parts of what it means to "be" a family. Based on results from a study on intergenerational communication over a ...
Frank R. Bentley, Sujoy Kumar Chowduhry
STOC
2004
ACM
134views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
Better extractors for better codes?
We present an explicit construction of codes that can be list decoded from a fraction (1 - ) of errors in sub-exponential time and which have rate / logO(1) (1/). This comes close...
Venkatesan Guruswami
MM
2004
ACM
106views Multimedia» more  MM 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Phrase structure detection in dance
This paper deals with phrase structure detection in contemporary western dance. Phrases are a sequence of movements that exist at semantic abstraction than gestures. The problem i...
Vidyarani M. Dyaberi, Hari Sundaram, Jodi James, G...