Overview of the second text retrieval conference (TREC-2)
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Training a selection function for extraction
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A case study in web search using TREC algorithms
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Placing search in context: the concept revisited
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A Survey of Context-Aware Mobile Computing Research
A Survey of Context-Aware Mobile Computing Research
Trainable, scalable summarization using robust NLP and machine learning
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An analysis of the AskMSR question-answering system
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A large scale study of wireless search behavior: Google mobile search
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SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A diary study of mobile information needs
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Deciphering mobile search patterns: a study of Yahoo! mobile search queries
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Predicting the readability of short web summaries
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A tree-network model for mining short message services seed users and its empirical analysis
Knowledge-Based Systems
Kwiizya: local cellular network services in remote areas
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Interactive web caching for slow or intermittent networks
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Short Messaging Service (SMS) based mobile information services have become increasingly common around the world, especially in emerging regions among users with low-end mobile devices. This paper presents the design and implementation of SMSFind, an SMS-based search system that enables users to obtain extremely concise (one SMS) message of 140 bytes) and appropriate search responses for queries across arbitrary topics in one round of interaction. SMSFind is designed to complement existing SMS-based search services that are either limited in the topics they recognize or involve a human in the loop. Given an unstructured search query, SMSFind, uses a conventional search engine as a back-end to elicit several search responses and uses a combination of information retrieval techniques to extract the most appropriate 140-byte snippet as the final SMS search response. We show that SMSFind returns appropriate responses for 57.3% of ChaCha search queries in our test set; this accuracy rate is high given that ChaCha employs a human to answer the same questions. We have also deployed a pilot version of SMSFind for use with a small focus group in Kenya to explore the interaction issues of such a system and share our experience.