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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
The maximum entropy method for analyzing retrieval measures
We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu
SISAP
2009
IEEE
159views Data Mining» more  SISAP 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Dynamic P2P Indexing and Search Based on Compact Clustering
Abstract—We propose a strategy to perform query processing on P2P similarity search systems based on peers and superpeers. We show that by approximating global but resumed inform...
Mauricio Marín, Veronica Gil Costa, Cecilia...
AMW
2011
14 years 7 months ago
Private Database Synthesis for Outsourced System Evaluation
The goal of this paper is to permit secure outsourced system evaluation. We propose a method for generating synthetic databases and obfuscating a workload of queries in order to pr...
Vani Gupta, Gerome Miklau, Neoklis Polyzotis
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Mining query subtopics from search log data
Most queries in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Identifying the major senses and facets of queries from search log data, referred to as query subtopic mining in this pa...
Yunhua Hu, Ya-nan Qian, Hang Li, Daxin Jiang, Jian...
ICDM
2002
IEEE
105views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2002»
15 years 9 months ago
Empirical Comparison of Various Reinforcement Learning Strategies for Sequential Targeted Marketing
We empirically evaluate the performance of various reinforcement learning methods in applications to sequential targeted marketing. In particular, we propose and evaluate a progre...
Naoki Abe, Edwin P. D. Pednault, Haixun Wang, Bian...