A Few Queries Go a Long Way: Information-Distortion Tradeoffs in Matching

A Few Examples Go A Long Way

We address a specific enterprise document search scenario, where the information need is expressed in an elaborate manner. In our scenario, information needs are expressed using a short query (of a few keywords) together with examples of key reference pages. Given this setup, we investigate how the examples can be utilized to improve the end-to-end performance on the document retrieval task. Ou...

echocardiography in sleep apnea patients: a long way to go

Complexity-Distortion Tradeoffs in Vector Matching

In this paper we consider the problem of searching for the best match for an input among a set of vectors, according to some predetermined metric. Examples of this problem include the search for the best match for an input in a VQ encoder and the search for a motion vector in motion estimation based video coding. We propose an approach that computes a partial distance metric and uses prior prob...

Quinidine in Brugada Syndrome: Still a Long Way to Go….

S ince Brugada syndrome was identified in 1992, its therapeutic management of patients has presented a great challenge for clinicians. In this issue of Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Belhassen et al 2 suggest both risk strati-fication of arrhythmia and therapeutic improvements using electrophysiological study (EPS) and quinidine. Although gradual progress in risk stratification a...

We still have a long way to go.

This paper presents the challenges involved for team members working on a research project from three different universities located in Melbourne and Brisbane. An advisory university was located overseas in Surrey, England. A variety of computer mediated technologies were used for online collaborations and discussions such as Skype, Elluminate Live!, Carrick Exchange and an Access Grid. Team co...