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WWW
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Robust web content extraction
We present an empirical evaluation and comparison of two content extraction methods in HTML: absolute XPath expressions and relative XPath expressions. We argue that the relative ...
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Maria E. Orlowska, Tomasz Kacz...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
STMBench7: a benchmark for software transactional memory
Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for controlling concurrency in modern multi-processor architectures. STM aims to be more scalable than explicit coarse...
Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Jan Vitek
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A formal study of information retrieval heuristics
Empirical studies of information retrieval methods show that good retrieval performance is closely related to the use of various retrieval heuristics, such as TF-IDF weighting. On...
Hui Fang, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
WWW
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Bilingual web page and site readability assessment
Readability assessment is a method to measure the difficulty of a piece of text material, and it is widely used in educational field to assist instructors to prepare appropriate m...
Tak Pang Lau, Irwin King
FPLAY
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Interactive accounting simulation environment for accounting education and training
In contrast to traditional teaching-and-learning environments whereby the teacher controls the learning (e.g., teacher-centered), video games present a learner-centered approach t...
Andrew Milner, Andrew Hogue, Bill Kapralos, John F...