Below are the best papers from ACM Multimedia 2015. Analyzing Free-standing Conversational Groups: A Multimodal Approach Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Yan Yan (University of Trento, Italy), Elisa Ricci, Oswald Lanz (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy), Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy) During natural…
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By 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services wants 85 percent of traditional Medicare reimbursements to be based on quality or value, with 30 percent of payments reimbursed through alternative payment models like Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Toward that…
Editorial note: The CIKM 2015 Machine Learning Competition asked participants to predict the outcomes of every match in the Australian 2015 football league season. The competition received more than 90 submissions from the machine learning community. Sports bookmaker Hung Doan…
Best paper Assessing the impact of syntactic and semantic structures for answer passages reranking Kateryna Tymoshenko (University of Trento); Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute) In this paper, we extensively study the use of syntactic and semantic structures obtained with…
Posted by Jeannette M. Wing The Internet, global positioning systems, the laser, multi-touch displays and search engines. What do these have in common? These technologies, which we take for granted today, came out of basic scientific research. Basic research creates…
Making search better by slowing it down will be explored in the welcoming keynote when CIKM convenes in Melbourne, Australia this week. In “Slow Search: Improving Information Retrieval Using Human Assistance,” Principal Researcher Jaime Teevan will share some of the…
Preparations for the 2016 ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference are already under way. SIGMOD is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. Upcoming SIGMOD dates Research…
Christine Clifton-Thornton, senior writer for Research News, asked the President to write an article on STEM education. His response follows. America’s drive to tinker, invent, and push the boundaries of what’s possible sets us apart—and we have a lot to…
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Microsoft engineers and City of Bellevue planners have a sci-fi inspired strategy for curbing bike and pedestrian injuries on city streets: By using video analytics, they want to predict and prevent crashes before they happen.