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SOFSEM
2007
Springer
15 years 6 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 5 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
15 years 29 days 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»
16 years 5 days 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 5 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...