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WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
MM
2006
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Virtual observers in a mobile surveillance system
Conventional wide-area video surveillance systems use a network of fixed cameras positioned close to locations of interest. We describe an alternative and flexible approach to w...
Stewart Greenhill, Svetha Venkatesh
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Context-aware ranking in web search
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Biao Xiang, Daxin Jiang, Jian Pei, Xiaohui Sun, En...
WAIM
2007
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Distributed, Hierarchical Clustering and Summarization in Sensor Networks
We propose DHCS, a method of distributed, hierarchical clustering and summarization for online data analysis and mining in sensor networks. Different from the acquisition and aggre...
Xiuli Ma, Shuangfeng Li, Qiong Luo, Dongqing Yang,...
UIST
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Preference elicitation for interface optimization
Decision-theoretic optimization is becoming a popular tool in the user interface community, but creating accurate cost (or utility) functions has become a bottleneck — in most c...
Krzysztof Gajos, Daniel S. Weld