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IUI
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Personal choice point: helping users visualize what it means to buy a BMW
How do we know if we can afford a particular purchase? We can find out what the payments might be and check our balances on various accounts, but does this answer the question? Wh...
Andrew E. Fano, Scott W. Kurth
ICWSM
2010
15 years 8 months ago
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Zeynep Tufekci
TREC
2001
15 years 8 months ago
SiteQ: Engineering High Performance QA System Using Lexico-Semantic Pattern Matching and Shallow NLP
s In TREC-10, we participated in the web track (only ad-hoc task) and the QA track (only main task). In the QA track, our QA system (SiteQ) has general architecture with three proc...
Gary Geunbae Lee, Jungyun Seo, Seungwoo Lee, Hanmi...
BMCBI
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Accurate statistics for local sequence alignment with position-dependent scoring by rare-event sampling
Background: Molecular database search tools need statistical models to assess the significance for the resulting hits. In the classical approach one asks the question how probable...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Inke Herms, Sven Rahmann, Alex...
ECTEL
2007
Springer
16 years 23 days ago
The Everlasting Dawn of Educational Brokers - A Search for Key Design Principles
In the last couple of years we have evidenced several initiatives promoting the vision of open educational systems. Educational brokers are supposed to take advantage of this ‘in...
Bernd Simon, Petra Oberhumer, Robert Kristöfl