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Google Translate Does Not UÂnderstand the Content of the Texts
How well do translation programs translate?
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What Went Wrong? Facebook and 'Sharing' Data with Cambridge Analytica
The road to the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal is strewn with failures.
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Student Liaison Program Debuts at SIGIR 2017
The SIGIR Student Liaison Program supports an environment in which all students thrive.
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Keynotes at SIGIR 2017
This article summarizes the keynotes in the main session and from the Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval.
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SIGIR 2017: Diversity and Inclusion
This article describes activities to support diversity and inclusion at SIGIR 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.
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SIGIR 2017 Day 1: Neural Networks For IR
Blog on a one-day tutorial on Neural Networks at SIGIR 2017.
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ACM SIGIR 2017 Tokyo, Blog #1: Yokoso!
This is the first of a series of blogs on ACM SIGIR 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.
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What Happened?
As forecasters attempt to understand exactly what happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the data itself may hold vital clues.
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Exascale Computing and Big Data: Time To Reunite
It is past time to reunite the big data, cloud, and high-performance computing communities. Each can each learn much from the other.
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Socializing with Robots at Ginza
Modern social robots are making their debut in our daily lives.
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The NIPS Experiment
In the NIPS experiment, 10% of papers submitted to the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation went through its review process twice, with results compared...
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Lessons from Winnie the Pooh: Sustainable Cyberinfrastructure
The longitudinal value of research data often accrues to disciplines other than those where it was created. We need a new model that judiciously balances investment...
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Little's Law in the Exascale Era
When performance optimization, reliability requirements, and energy management are convolved with component costs, device physics, system software services and...
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HPC, Big Data and the Peloponnesian War
We need a concord and strategic research investment plan that recognizes the shared importance of HPC and big data. Both warrant investments in basic research,...
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Priming, Assimilation Bias, Social Proof in Social Media
As the US election draws near, what is the role that social media play in this political process? How do social theories and psychological tendencies affect the...
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What Does 'Big Data' Mean?
It is interesting to note that a substantial subset of the computer science community has redefined their research agenda to fit under the marketing banner of "Big...
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Conferences vs. Journals in Computer Science: An Alternative Perspective from Education
What if computer science conferences required proposals for presentations and then selected some for consideration in journals and book chapters?
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