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WWW
2001
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
EWSN
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Sundial: Using Sunlight to Reconstruct Global Timestamps
Abstract. This paper investigates postmortem timestamp reconstruction in environmental monitoring networks. In the absence of a timesynchronization protocol, these networks use mul...
Jayant Gupchup, Razvan Musaloiu-Elefteri, Alexande...
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
End user programming and context responsiveness in handheld prompting systems for persons with cognitive disabilities and caregi
Providing instructions via handheld prompters holds much promise for supporting independence for persons with cognitive disabilities. Because users of these tools are paired ? car...
Stefan Carmien
ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
"They Are Out There, If You Know Where to Look": Mining Transliterations of OOV Query Terms for Cross-Language Information Retri
It is well known that the use of a good Machine Transliteration system improves the retrieval performance of Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems when the query and ...
Raghavendra Udupa, K. Saravanan, Anton Bakalov, Ab...
WISTP
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Secure and Usable Out-Of-Band Channels for Ad Hoc Mobile Device Interactions
Protocols for bootstrapping security in ad hoc mobile device interactions rely on users’ ability to perform specific tasks such as transferring or comparing fingerprints of inf...
Ronald Kainda, Ivan Flechais, A. W. Roscoe