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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Brick by brick: iterating interventions to bridge the achievement gap with virtual peers
We lay out one strand of a continuing investigation into the development of a virtual peer to help children learn to use “school English” and “school-ratified science talk...
Emilee Rader, Margaret Echelbarger, Justine Cassel...
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Back to the Roots: Mean-Variance Analysis of Relevance Estimations
Recently, mean-variance analysis has been proposed as a novel paradigm to model document ranking in Information Retrieval. The main merit of this approach is that it diversifies t...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
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PERVASIVE
2011
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
n-Gram Geo-trace Modeling
As location-sensing smart phones and location-based services gain mainstream popularity, there is increased interest in developing techniques that can detect anomalous activities. ...
Senaka Buthpitiya, Ying Zhang, Anind K. Dey, Marti...
PLDI
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Automatic CPU-GPU communication management and optimization
The performance benefits of GPU parallelism can be enormous, but unlocking this performance potential is challenging. The applicability and performance of GPU parallelizations is...
Thomas B. Jablin, Prakash Prabhu, James A. Jablin,...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval
We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by do...
Liang Jeff Chen, Yannis Papakonstantinou