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Query Refinement Using Conversational Context: a Method and an Evaluation Resource

This paper introduces a query refinement method applied to queries asked by users during a meeting or a conversation. Current approaches suffer from poor quality to achieve this goal, but we argue that their performance could be improved by focusing on the ...

2015

CO Desorption from a Catalytic Surface: Elucidation of the Role of Steps by Velocity-Selected Residence Time Measurements

Directly measuring the rate of a surface chemical reaction remains a challenging problem. For example, even after more than 30 years of study, there is still no agreement on the kinetic parameters for one of the simplest surface reactions: desorption of CO ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Emerging trends in peer review - a survey

John Richard Walker

Classical peer review has been subject to intense criticism for slowing down the publication process, bias against specific categories of paper and author, unreliability, inability to detect errors and fraud, unethical practices, and the lack of recognitio ...

Frontiers Media Sa2015

A Smooth CH3NH3PbI3 Film via a New Approach for Forming the PbI2 Nanostructure Together with Strategically High CH3NH3I Concentration for High Efficient Planar-Heterojunction Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Hong Zhang, Hongwei Zhu, Di Zhang

The photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) is extremely dependent on the morphology and crystallization of the perovskite film, which is affected by the deposition method. In this work, a new approach is demonstrated for forming the PbI ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2015

Wearable Sensors for medical applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Antonios Bazigos

The presentation discusses Smart wearable sensors for improved Quality of Life. ...

2014

How to kill inventors: testing the MassacratorA (c) algorithm for inventor disambiguation

Michele Pezzoni, Francesco Lissoni

Inventor disambiguation is an increasingly important issue for users of patent data. We propose and test a number of refinements to the original Massacrator algorithm, originally proposed by Lissoni et al. (The keins database on academic inventors: methodo ...

Springer2014

Multilingual Lexicography with a Focus on Less-Resourced Languages: Data Mining, Expert Input, Crowdsourcing, and Gamification

Martin Benjamin

This paper looks at the challenges that the Kamusi Project faces for acquiring open lexical data for less-resourced languages (LRLs), of a range, depth, and quality that can be useful within Human Language Technology (HLT). These challenges include accessi ...

2014

De Gustibus Disputandum Est: Non-Linearity in Public Transportation Service Quality Evaluation

Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos

User perceptions of service quality are essential to promote public transport ridership and trigger positive externalities. Therefore, research efforts need to analyze service quality from the point of view of users. This article builds on the stream of wo ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2014

Robust visual tracking using feature selection

Fabien Willemin

Visual tracking has become a very important component in computer vision, but achieving a robust, reliable and real time tracking remains a real challenge.In order to improve the actual state-of-the-art, we choose to study and improve one of the most perfo ...

2014

Optimizing a remotely sensed proxy for plankton biomass in Lake Kivu

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Allyn Christine Knox

Many regions of the world, including inland lakes, present with suboptimal conditions for the remotely sensed retrieval of optical signals, thus challenging the limits of available satellite data-processing tools, such as atmospheric correction models (ACM ...

Taylor & Francis2014

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