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ICML
2009
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Geometry-aware metric learning
In this paper, we introduce a generic framework for semi-supervised kernel learning. Given pairwise (dis-)similarity constraints, we learn a kernel matrix over the data that respe...
Zhengdong Lu, Prateek Jain, Inderjit S. Dhillon
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Sitemaps: above and beyond the crawl of duty
Comprehensive coverage of the public web is crucial to web search engines. Search engines use crawlers to retrieve pages and then discover new ones by extracting the pages' o...
Uri Schonfeld, Narayanan Shivakumar
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised query segmentation using generative language models and wikipedia
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...
Bin Tan, Fuchun Peng
KDD
2009
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Large human communication networks: patterns and a utility-driven generator
Given a real, and weighted person-to-person network which changes over time, what can we say about the cliques that it contains? Do the incidents of communication, or weights on t...
Nan Du, Christos Faloutsos, Bai Wang, Leman Akoglu
PERCOM
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Caveat Emptor: A Comparative Study of Secure Device Pairing Methods
Abstract--"Secure Device Pairing" is the process of bootstrapping a secure channel between two previously unassociated devices over a (usually wireless) human-imperceptib...
Arun Kumar, Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun