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PPL
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Embodied Computation
The traditional computational devices and models, such as the von Neumann architecture or the Turing machine, are strongly influenced by concepts of central control and perfectio...
Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
A Comparative Study of Utilizing Topic Models for Information Retrieval
We explore the utility of different types of topic models for retrieval purposes. Based on prior work, we describe several ways that topic models can be integrated into the retrie...
Xing Yi, James Allan
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
ICALP
2005
Springer
16 years 14 hour ago
Single-Database Private Information Retrieval with Constant Communication Rate
We present a single-database private information retrieval (PIR) scheme with communication complexity O(k+d), where k ≥ log n is a security parameter that depends on the database...
Craig Gentry, Zulfikar Ramzan
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
The summer academy for advancing deaf and hard of hearing in computing
Deaf and hard of hearing students are an underrepresented group in computing and face extra challenges in university-level computing courses. This paper describes a 9-week Summer ...
Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Robert I. Roth