One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Mobile devices often utilize touchscreen keyboards for text input. However, due to the lack of tactile feedback and generally small key sizes, users often produce typing errors. Ke...
112 views167 votes16 years 21 days ago ISEUD 2009»
All software today is written using libraries, toolkits, frameworks and other application programming interfaces (APIs). We performed a user study of the online documentation a lar...
164 views137 votes15 years 11 months ago PLDI 2010»
Single thread performance remains an important consideration even for multicore, multiprocessor systems. As a result, techniques for improving single thread performance using mult...
173 views141 votes16 years 8 months ago ICCV 2007»
In this paper we propose to transform an image descriptor so that nearest neighbor (NN) search for correspondences becomes the optimal matching strategy under the assumption that ...
97 views166 votes15 years 11 months ago SCCC 2002»
The compression of binary texts using antidictionaries is a novel technique based on the fact that some substrings (called “antifactors”) never appear in the text. Let × be a...
145 views180 votes15 years 4 months ago RAID 2010»
Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) make extensive use of regular expressions as attack signatures. Internally, NIDS represent and operate these signatures using finite au...
People's ability to accurately locate target objects in images is severely affected by the prevalence of the sought objects. This negative effect greatly impacts critical rea...
We introduce semantic pointing, a novel interaction technique that improves target acquisition in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Semantic pointing uses two independent sizes fo...
164 views152 votes15 years 11 months ago DIGRA 2005»
As more games of a wider variety of genres move online to provide multiplayer experiences to their players, there is an increasing need to improve the quality of service delivered...