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Christopher William Higgins
Researcher at Yahoo!
Publications - 103
Citations - 5396
Christopher William Higgins is an academic researcher from Yahoo!. The author has contributed to research in topics: Context (language use) & Object (computer science). The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 103 publications receiving 5396 citations.
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Techniques for input recogniton and completion
Marc Davis,Joseph O'Sullivan,Christopher T. Paretti,Ronald Martinez,Christopher William Higgins,Athellina Athsani,Marco Boerries,Edward Stanley Ott,Keith David Saft,George Grinsted,Lee John Parry,Ben Kim,II Steven Antonio Jackson +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe methods and apparatus by which one or more input words may be predicted based on partial input from a user using a predictive model that employs contextual metadata which characterizes the user in a multi-dimensional space.
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System and method for context enhanced ad creation
Carrie Burgener,Simon P. King,Christopher T. Paretti,Christopher William Higgins,Marc Davis,Athellina Athsani,Rahul Nair,Nathanael Joe Hayashi +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, an ad creation system utilizes data made available by the W4 COMN to facilitate the creation and placement of advertisements on a message delivery network, such as the Web4COMN itself.
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System and method for context based query augmentation
Christopher William Higgins,Marc Davis,Christopher T. Paretti,Simon P. King,Rahul Nair,Carrie Burgener +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a question is received over a network from a questioning user comprising an identification of a user and at least one question criteria, and the question is modified using the user context data to create a modified question having at least two additional criteria based on user context.
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Event communication platform for mobile device users
Keith David Saft,Christopher William Higgins,Marc Davis,Joseph O'Sullivan,Robert Carter Trout +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a method, system, and apparatus are directed to communicating data over a network, and event attributes comprising at least two of a temporal, spatial, social, or topical information are received.
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Distributed Automatic Recording of Live Event
TL;DR: In this paper, an interest type for multimedia content is obtained from a consuming user and a subset of the multimedia content conforming to the interest type is presented in substantial real-time at the receiving devices of the consuming users.