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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"People search"”.
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The voting model for people search
… as candidate profiles. The statement of this research work is that the expert search task in an enterprise setting can be successfully and effectively modelled using a voting paradigm. In the so-called Voting Model, when a document is retrieved for a query, this document represents a vote for …
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People and reverse people search on the internet
… any human effort. It is the first system that search and analysis unstructured online data to generate up to date contact information. We combine many different techniques like entity resolution, clustering, random walk, personalized PageRank and etc. System is practical and produces good …
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People-search : searching for people sharing similar interests from the web
On the Web, there are limited ways of finding people sharing similar interests or background with a given person. The current methods, such as using regular search engines, are either ineffective or time consuming. In this work, a new approach for searching people sharing similar interests from the …
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Parameter Estimation in Biological Cell Cycle Models Using Deterministic Optimization
… in representing real biological cells. Typically people search for the best parameters to these models using computers only as tools to run simulations. In this thesis methods and results are described for a computer program that searches for parameters to a series of related models using well …
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Price Competition Reduction Strategies in Chinese B2C E-Commerce Markets: A Case Study
The internet has transformed the way people search for products and significantly reduced search costs. This paper reviews past literature in price competition theory, and examines the competitive landscape of major B2C firms in China’s e-commerce industry, where online retail markets have seen …
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Community in the electronic age : an information resource center at Government Center
… times of rapid technological and social changes, people search for continuity and meaning in their surroundings . The design for the IRC addresses their need for community by providing them the resources to reach out to others virtually and as an intermediate place where an informal public life …
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Consumption of Content on the Web: An Ecologically Inspired Perspective
How do people search for and organize informational resources on the web? This dissertation explores this question in the context of music tagging and listening, incorporating web data mining and machine learning methods with theory from cognitive science. In particular, I draw inspiration from …
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Optimizing search user interfaces and interactions within professional social networks
… of new data per day, and connect millions of people. To help users cope with the scale and influx of new information, PSNs provide search functionality. However, most of the search engines within PSNs today still provide only keyword queries, basic faceted search capabilities, and …
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Making a Better Query: Find Good Feedback Documents and Terms via Semantic Associations
When people search, they always input several keywords as an input query. While current information retrieval (IR) systems are based on term matching, documents will not be considered as relevant if they do not have the exact terms as in the query. However, it is common that these documents are …
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GoPubMed: Ontology-based literature search for the life sciences
… the scientific literature is a new area of research. Motivation: When people search, they have questions in mind. Answering questions in a domain requires the knowledge of the terminology of that domain. Classical search engines do not provide background knowledge for the presentation of …