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2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
AAAI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
AURA: Enabling Subject Matter Experts to Construct Declarative Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks
The long-term goal of Project Halo is to build an application called Digital Aristotle that can answer questions on a variety of science topics and provide user and domain appropr...
Ken Barker, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Shaw Yi Chaw, Peter...
MOBISYS
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Tracking Moving Devices with the Cricket Location System
We study the problem of tracking a moving device under two indoor location architectures: an active mobile architecture and a passive mobile architecture. In the former, the infra...
Adam Smith, Hari Balakrishnan, Michel Goraczko, Ni...
CACM
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
The emergence of a networking primitive in wireless sensor networks
The wireless sensor network community approached netabstractions as an open question, allowing answers to emerge with time and experience. The Trickle algorithm has become a basic...
Philip Levis, Eric A. Brewer, David E. Culler, Dav...