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ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Evaluation and User Preference Study on Spatial Diversity
Spatial diversity is a relatively new branch of research in the context of spatial information retrieval. Although the assumption that spatially diversified results may meet users&...
Jiayu Tang, Mark Sanderson
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Privacy Issues of the W3C Geolocation API
The W3C's Geolocation API may rapidly standardize the transmission of location information on the Web, but, in dealing with such sensitive information, it also raises serious...
Nick Doty, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Erik Wilde
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Detecting synonyms in social tagging systems to improve content retrieval
Collaborative tagging used in online social content systems is naturally characterized by many synonyms, causing low precision retrieval. We propose a mechanism based on user pref...
Maarten Clements, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. ...
KER
2007
90views more  KER 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Ontology-based models in pervasive computing systems
Pervasive computing is by its nature open and extensible, and must integrate the information from a diverse range of sources. This leads to a problem of information exchange, so s...
Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon
PVLDB
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
On the provenance of non-answers to queries over extracted data
In information extraction, uncertainty is ubiquitous. For this reason, it is useful to provide users querying extracted data with explanations for the answers they receive. Provid...
Jiansheng Huang, Ting Chen, AnHai Doan, Jeffrey F....