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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
AIPS
2008
15 years 9 months ago
An Online Learning Method for Improving Over-Subscription Planning
Despite the recent resurgence of interest in learning methods for planning, most such efforts are still focused exclusively on classical planning problems. In this work, we invest...
Sung Wook Yoon, J. Benton, Subbarao Kambhampati
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Simulation-based verification of lean improvement for emergency room process
One of the key challenges to health care access in Canadian hospitals is growing overcrowding of the Emergency Departments (EDs), leading to the medical personnel overload, and th...
Nancy Khurma, Gheorghe M. Bacioiu, Zbigniew J. Pas...
ACL
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation
Recently, confusion network decoding has been applied in machine translation system combination. Due to errors in the hypothesis alignment, decoding may result in ungrammatical co...
Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Spyridon Matsoukas, Richard...
USAB
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Improving Interactive Systems Usability Using Formal Description Techniques: Application to HealthCare
In this paper we argue that the formal analysis of an interactive medical system can improve their usability evaluation such that potential erroneous interactions are identified an...
Philippe A. Palanque, Sandra Basnyat, David Navarr...