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NAACL
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised Model Adaptation using Information-Theoretic Criterion
In this paper we propose a novel general framework for unsupervised model adaptation. Our method is based on entropy which has been used previously as a regularizer in semi-superv...
Ariya Rastrow, Frederick Jelinek, Abhinav Sethy, B...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Participatory user centered design techniques for a large scale ad-hoc health information system
During mass casualty incidents, an enormous amount of data, including the vital signs of the patients, the location of the patients, and the location of the first responders must ...
Tia Gao, Tammara Massey, Majid Sarrafzadeh, Leo Se...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
How to barter bits for chronons: compression and bandwidth trade offs for database scans
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
How to ConQueR why-not questions
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
Quoc Trung Tran, Chee-Yong Chan
PET
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
How Unique Is Your Web Browser?
We investigate the degree to which modern web browsers are subject to “device fingerprinting” via the version and configuration information that they will transmit to website...
Peter Eckersley