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2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Interactive recommendations in social endorsement networks
An increasing number of social networking platforms are giving users the option to endorse entities that they find appealing, such as videos, photos, or even other users. We defin...
Theodoros Lappas, Dimitrios Gunopulos
ISCI
2007
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15 years 1 months ago
Semantic passage segmentation based on sentence topics for question answering
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...
Hyo-Jung Oh, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Myung-Gil Jang
PVLDB
2010
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14 years 12 months ago
Embellishing Text Search Queries To Protect User Privacy
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
HweeHwa Pang, Xuhua Ding, Xiaokui Xiao
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Do summaries help?
We describe a task-based evaluation to determine whether multi-document summaries measurably improve user performance when using online news browsing systems for directed research...
Kathleen McKeown, Rebecca J. Passonneau, David K. ...
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Query workload-aware overlay construction using histograms
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems offer an efficient means of data sharing among a dynamically changing set of a large number of autonomous nodes. Each node in a p2p system is connected...
Georgia Koloniari, Yannis Petrakis, Evaggelia Pito...