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MM
2006
ACM
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16 years 10 days ago
Buzz: telling compelling stories
This paper describes a digital theater installation called Buzz. Buzz consists of virtual actors who express the collective voice generated by weblogs (blogs). These actors find ...
Sara Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, David A. Shamma,...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: a study in the domain of clinical medicine
Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman
IUI
2005
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Active preference learning for personalized calendar scheduling assistance
We present PLIANT, a learning system that supports adaptive assistance in an open calendaring system. PLIANT learns user preferences from the feedback that naturally occurs during...
Melinda T. Gervasio, Michael D. Moffitt, Martha E....
MM
2005
ACM
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Image region entropy: a measure of "visualness" of web images associated with one concept
We propose a new method to measure “visualness” of concepts, that is, what extent concepts have visual characteristics. To know which concept has visually discriminative power...
Keiji Yanai, Kobus Barnard