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SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel
JCDL
2003
ACM
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16 years 6 days ago
Content Access Characterization in Digital Libraries
To support non-trivial clients, such as data exploration and analysis environments, digital libraries must be able to describe the access modes that their contents support. We pre...
Greg Janee, James Frew, David Valentine
SIGIR
2003
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering
Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
SIGUCCS
2004
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
Web-based technologies: reaching their ultimate potential on restricted budgets
Academic institutions’ dependence on web-based technologies to improve efficiency in class offerings, academic records, and office documentation is increasing at a rapid pace. T...
Salvador Báez-Franceschi, Karen Le, Diana V...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Quickdraw: the impact of mobility and on-body placement on device access time
We investigate the effect of placement and user mobility on the time required to access an on-body interface. In our study, a wrist-mounted system was significantly faster to acce...
Daniel Ashbrook, James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Thad S...