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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Yahoo!"”.
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Seeing the way they are in the way they IM: case studies of instant messaging in Taiwanese fifth graders' lives
… in Taiwan on their use of IMing with peers over Yahoo!Messenger and on their interactions with their “online friends” in online gaming chat rooms. To achieve my research goal I adopted two approaches in this study. First, to understand the role of Yahoo! Messenger in a child’s life I asked …
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A comparative analysis of web-based GIS applications using usability metrics
… commonly used WGIS applications as Google maps, Yahoo maps, and MapQuest. Finally, those case studies were compared and analysed based on usability metrics that have been identified. Based on a comparative study, four usability metrics (Effectiveness, Efficiency, Satisfaction and Learnability) …
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Aspects of Japanese computer-mediated communication : linguistics and socio-cultural perspectives
… separate the two target websites, Channel 2 and Yahoo within CMC. Based on the linguistic characterisation of the CMC language, the thesis further discusses qualitatively politeness and impoliteness behaviours in the two target BBS websites with contrasting linguistic features.</p> <p>This study …
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Seeing the Way They Are in the Way They IM: Case Studies of Instant Messaging in Taiwanese Fifth Graders' Lives
… the fourth grade students were taught how to use Yahoo! Messenger. I observed the use of Yahoo! Messenger among these students and their peers immediately after this class. IMing quickly became an afterschool activity and their primary Internet activity. My second discovery is that each child's …
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Uncertainty in Internet-Based Cancer News
… from CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Google News, and Yahoo! News. Using these four websites allowed for the examination of differences between news retrieval tools because Google News and Yahoo! News represented a new approach to news dissemination called news aggregation. The final stratified sample …
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Goal-oriented Web search
… and news by querying YouTube, Truveo, Google and Yahoo search services. The Planner module decomposes functionality in Goals and Techniques. Goals declare searches for specific types of content and Techniques query the various Web services. We choose which Web service has the best rating at …
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A lazy directory-based implementation of consistent replicated storage
… envi- ronment with workloads generated by the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark. We find that while there are cases where our systems perform with better average latency, the variability in the request latencies is undesirable due to expensive synchronization operations.
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Spam Analysis and Detection for User Generated Content in Online Social Networks
… to three large OSN user activity logs, including Yahoo! Blogs,Yahoo! Answers, and Yahoo! Del.icio.us, for a duration of up to 4.5 years, weare able to well analyze the patterns of content generation patterns of socialnetwork users in detail. Our analysis consistently shows that users' …
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Measuring the effects of online advertising on human behavior using natural and field experiments
… first chapter uses a natural experiment on the Yahoo! Front Page, aided by a flexible semiparametric model, to identify the causal effects of display ad frequency on internet users' responses as measured at the individual level by clicks and new-account sign-ups. Performance is heterogeneous …
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Clustering and comparing information extracted from personal health messages
… domain, a series of good online services such as Yahoo! Groups,WebMD and Med- Help, offer patients and physicians a good platform to discuss health problems, e.g., diseases and drugs, diagnoses and treatments, which also provide a large volume of data for researchers to analyze and explore. …
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A computational semantics system for detecting drug reactions and patient outcomes in personal health messages
… sample messages from our unique dataset from Yahoo! Groups, containing 12M personal messages from 27K public groups in Health and Wellness. Evaluated results show high quality of labeled clustering, promising an effective automatic system for discovering useful information across large volumes …
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New techniques to lower the tail latency in stream processing systems
… micro-benchmarks as well as two topologies from Yahoo! Inc. Our results show improvement in tail latency in the range of 2%-72.9%.
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Graphical analysis of hard-to-borrow stocks
… dealing with the financial data taken from the yahoo finance, since it helps in minimizing the memory usage for the data storage. Our main interest was to work with hard to borrowness for at the money options, but due to unavailability for these events we worked with in the money options since …
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Optimizing interactive analytics engines for heterogeneous clusters
… experimental results using workloads from Yahoo!’s production Druid cluster. Compared to Getafix, Getafix-H improves the tail latency by 18% and reduces memory usage by up to 27% (2-3X improvement over Scarlett). In presence of stragglers, Getafix-H improves tail latency by 55% and reduces …
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Estimating peer effects in networked panel data
… to the panel data case. With engagement data for Yahoo Go, a mobile application, we use the network topology of application users in an instrumental variables setup to estimate usage peer effects, comparing the performance of a variety of regression models. We find analyses of this type may be …
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Searching for the President: Analysis of Search Engine Results from the 2008 Presidential Election
… candidates. By examining the results of Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com searches, the study analyzed search engines as structural frameworks for online political information (Dahlgren, 2005) and examined the extent to which search engines acted as market-oriented information seeking services (see …
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Towards Label-Efficient Learning: Exploiting Limited Labels and Abundant Unlabeled Data
… publicly available datasets, including AG News, Yahoo! Answers, IMDB, Empathetic Dialogues, GoEmotions, Hurricane, BANKING, CLINC, Reddit, StackExchange, MTOP, FewEvent, StackOverflow and WebArena.
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An Investigation of Digital Reference Interviews: A Dialogue Act Approach
… based question-answering services (e.g. Yahoo! Answers) characterizes a recent trend in web technologies, often referred to as the social web. This trend highlights the importance of supporting linguistic interactions in people's online information-seeking activities in daily life - …
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Post Processing Wrapper Generated Tables For Labeling Anonymous Datasets
… through different search engine such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. The comparative probabilities of attributes being candidate labels are presented which seem to be very promising, achieved as high as 98% probability of assigning good label to anonymous attribute. To the best of our knowledge, this …
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