ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
For many ranking applications we would like to understand not only which items are top-ranked, but also why they are top-ranked. However, many of the best ranking algorithms (e.g....
WEBI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract--Search engines have greatly influenced the way people access information on the Internet as such engines provide the preferred entry point to billions of pages on the Web...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...
NIPS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
The Google search engine has enjoyed huge success with its web page ranking algorithm, which exploits global, rather than local, hyperlink structure of the web using random walks....
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. We propose a popularity weighted ranking algorithm for academic digital libraries that uses the popularity factor of a publication venue overcoming the limitations of imp...
AAAI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
HPDC
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
Abstract. We present PlanetP, a peer-to-peer (P2P) content search and retrieval infrastructure targeting communities wishing to share large sets of text documents. P2P computing is...
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. The focus of web search is moving away from returning relevant documents towards returning structured data as results to user queries. A vital part in the architecture of...
DASFAA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract. In many application domains, e.g. sensor databases, traffic management or recognition systems, objects have to be compared based on positionally and existentially uncert...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
According to a recent survey made by Nielsen NetRatings, searching on news articles is one of the most important activity online. Indeed, Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others have p...