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1 Billion Pages = 1 Million Dollars? Mining the Web to Play "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
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2012
arXiv
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We exploit the redundancy and volume of information on the web to build a computerized player for the ABC TV game show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' ...
Our system demonstrates the potential of simple but well-chosen techniques for mining answers from unstructured information such as the web. ...
"Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" ...
arXiv:1212.2477v1
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Government as a Platform
2011
Innovations Technology Governance Globalization
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This is the secret behind the famous appeals to the audience in the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, as well as the success of prediction markets such as the University of Iowa's Electronic Market ...
Software and web culture not only embraces this mindset, but revels in it-you never know which idea will be the million-dollar idea. ...
doi:10.1162/inov_a_00056
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PROBLEMS OF PERSONNEL, INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF TAX MANAGEMENT: SYSTEM APPROACH
ПРОБЛЕМЫ КАДРОВОГО, ИНФОРМАЦИОННОГО И ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ НАЛОГОВОГО МЕНЕДЖМЕНТА: СИСТЕМНЫЙ ПОДХОД
2015
Journal of Tax Reform
ПРОБЛЕМЫ КАДРОВОГО, ИНФОРМАЦИОННОГО И ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ НАЛОГОВОГО МЕНЕДЖМЕНТА: СИСТЕМНЫЙ ПОДХОД
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What this kind of system demonstrates is what Surowiecki would describe as a type of cognitive decision making process, or what fans of the TV show Who wants to be a millionaire would call 'ask the audience ...
he describes this as 'social tagging'
10 to power 15 (a million, billion)
Indeed, Chris Anderson, in The Long Tail, seems to get a little confused, equating the architecture of participation ...
doi:10.15826/jtr.2015.1.1.003
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Data-driven approaches to information access
2003
Cognitive Science
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The same statistical properties constrain human performance, thus we believe that solutions to practical information access problems can shed light on human knowledge representation and reasoning. ...
The application areas include information retrieval, text categorization, and question answering. ...
I would also like to thank my graduate advisor, Rich Shiffrin, who provided numerous insights along the way and continues to be a source of challenging questions. ...
doi:10.1016/s0364-0213(03)00013-2
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Data-driven approaches to information access
2003
Cognitive Science
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The same statistical properties constrain human performance, thus we believe that solutions to practical information access problems can shed light on human knowledge representation and reasoning. ...
The application areas include information retrieval, text categorization, and question answering. ...
I would also like to thank my graduate advisor, Rich Shiffrin, who provided numerous insights along the way and continues to be a source of challenging questions. ...
doi:10.1207/s15516709cog2703_7
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An International Relations Perspective on the Convergence of Corporate Governance: German Shareholder Capitalism and the European Union, 1990-2000
2003
Social Science Research Network
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The skeptics also assert that existing elites will use their political and economic advantages to block reform; the optimists counterclaim that the spread of shareholding will reshape politics. ...
to maximize shareholder value. ...
To Be a Millionaire.'" 48 The c ommercial end orsers includ ed t he st ar o f a popular TV detective series. 49 Perhaps the high moment was a nationally-televised awards program hosted in September ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.374620
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The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Conflict, Stability, and Political Change
2004
Foreign Affairs
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Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining ...
the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. ...
The most popular show in the Arab world today is an MBC-produced version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" produced out of the same studios as the original British production. ...
doi:10.2307/20034117
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Copyright Redundancy
2003
Social Science Research Network
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Landes and Posner are not noting the obvious, though
ABC Television executives were surely aware of concerns that the public might tire of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ...
If there were a million dollars in potential profit to be made in developing an invention, for example by marketing and improving the light bulb, then in the absence of patent protection, producers would ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.374580
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Streaming media: audience and industry shifts in a networked society STREAMING MEDIA: AUDIENCE AND INDUSTRY SHIFTS IN A NETWORKED SOCIETY
2015
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As Waisbord argued, formats, which are shows that can be easily repurposed for different cultures (think of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Big Brother, or the Idol franchise) are "convenient instruments ...
Around this time, the Viacom-owned Blockbuster IPO was valued at
close to 4.8 billion dollars. Ten years later the company would file for bankruptcy, valued at
only 24 million dollars. ...
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Give Me A "Ball Park Figure": Creating Civic Narratives Through Stadium Building in Newark, New Jersey Creating Civic Narratives Through Stadium Building in Newark, NJ
2017
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"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" had a multiple-choice question "what is Hades and one of the possible choices was Newark." ...
Annual payments exceed $1 million through 2020 before declining." 235 It was millions of dollars to build on ideas that never existed.
2016/2017 The stadium is currently being used by local college and ...
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Alphabet Center offers resources, safe space for LGBTQ community Some aspects of Facebook that users might not 'like' Comedian Tosh sets record in ticket sales
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"Th ink, 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, ' 'Th e Bachelor' and ' American Idol, ' all rolled into one, " Ballard said. ...
And do we ever stop to think about the people whom we have never met, but can learn everything about us just by looking at our web pages? ...
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The keeper and the zoo
2014
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But if you put a billion molecules in a box, they become sound waves. There was nothing in the behavior of the few that suggested what the many could do. The body is that box. ...
While watching for collisions, I use zoos, circuses, animal husbandry and experimentation, and the fashion/beauty complex to think about the domestication of the human psyche and language as an immersion ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I offer my enduring gratitude to my committee, Briar Craig, Nancy Holmes, and Michael V. ...
doi:10.14288/1.0074400
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A Multi-Dimensional Approach for Framing Crowdsourcing Archetypes
2014
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To say it in a nutshell, the proposed framework combines two dimensions (i.e., motivations to participate and organization of external solvers) in order to portray six archetypes. ...
Looking at how the crowd may be turned into value to be internalized by organizations, the thesis examines crowdsourcing practices in the public as well in the private sector. ...
With this respect, at a first glance, a polarization seems to be evident. ...
doi:10.6092/polito/porto/2535900
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The reception of Bollywood in Malaysia (1991-2012): a contextual study
2017
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The thesis uses qualitative discourse analysis to look at the representations of Bollywood in the Malaysian media, and the broader context of such representations. ...
However, academic work on the Southeast Asian reception of these films is scarcer. This research seeks to fill this gap by looking at the reception of Bollywood in Malaysia from 1991-2012. ...
When SRK replaced Amitabh for the famous show Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian adaptation of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, there was a huge concern as to whether he could effectively fill the shoes of ...
doi:10.4225/03/58b8b78b9a084
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Inclusive National Belonging - Intercultural Performances in the "World-Open" Germany
2020
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The primary goal is to understand attempts at performing inclusive belonging by the state and other actors, with mostly those of "foreign heritage" at the center, and these attempts' pitfalls, opportunities ...
This dissertation explores what it means to belong in Berlin and Germany following a significant change in the citizenship laws in 2000, which legally reoriented the law away from a "German" legal identity ...
Her first history teacher dazzled them with his ability to answer difficult Who Wants to be a Millionaire-style questions. ...
doi:10.7916/d8-h1jc-y986
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