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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
When documents are very long, BM25 fails!
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Adaptive Jamming-Resistant Broadcast Systems with Partial Channel Sharing
—Wireless communication is particularly vulnerable to signal jamming attacks. Spread spectrum mitigates such problem by spreading normal narrowband signals over a much wider band...
Qi Dong, Donggang Liu
CSCW
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Peaks and persistence: modeling the shape of microblog conversations
A microblogged stream is delivered over time, providing an ongoing commentary of topics, trends, and issues. In this article, we present two methods of finding temporal topics wi...
David A. Shamma, Lyndon Kennedy, Elizabeth F. Chur...
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TCOM
2010
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14 years 4 months ago
A Unified Treatment of Optimum Pilot Overhead in Multipath Fading Channels
Abstract--The optimization of the pilot overhead in singleuser wireless fading channels is investigated, and the dependence of this overhead on various system parameters of interes...
N. Jindal, A. Lozano
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
142views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
15 years 9 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li