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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 4 months ago
Word Particles Applied to Information Retrieval
Document retrieval systems conventionally use words as the basic unit of representation, a natural choice since words are primary carriers of semantic information. In this paper w...
Evandro B. Gouvêa, Bhiksha Raj
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 4 months ago
Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Jun Wang
AAAI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Expectation-Based Versus Potential-Aware Automated Abstraction in Imperfect Information Games: An Experimental Comparison Using
ion-Based Versus Potential-Aware Automated Abstraction in Imperfect Information Games: An Experimental Comparison Using Poker Andrew Gilpin and Tuomas Sandholm Computer Science Dep...
Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm
DSS
2000
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15 years 7 months ago
Exploring the use of concept spaces to improve medical information retrieval
This research investigated the application of techniques successfully used in previous information retrieval research, to the more challenging area of medical informatics. It was ...
Andrea L. Houston, Hsinchun Chen, Bruce R. Schatz,...