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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 4 months ago
Word Particles Applied to Information Retrieval
Document retrieval systems conventionally use words as the basic unit of representation, a natural choice since words are primary carriers of semantic information. In this paper w...
Evandro B. Gouvêa, Bhiksha Raj
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 4 months ago
Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Jun Wang
AAAI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Expectation-Based Versus Potential-Aware Automated Abstraction in Imperfect Information Games: An Experimental Comparison Using
ion-Based Versus Potential-Aware Automated Abstraction in Imperfect Information Games: An Experimental Comparison Using Poker Andrew Gilpin and Tuomas Sandholm Computer Science Dep...
Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Information elicitation for decision making
Proper scoring rules, particularly when used as the basis for a prediction market, are powerful tools for eliciting and aggregating beliefs about events such as the likely outcome...
Yiling Chen, Ian A. Kash