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SAC
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Building an efficient preference XML query processor
Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
SungRan Cho, Wolf-Tilo Balke
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Translating relevance scores to probabilities for contextual advertising
Information retrieval systems conventionally assess document relevance using the bag of words model. Consequently, relevance scores of documents retrieved for different queries a...
Deepak Agarwal, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Robert Hall, ...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Learning to rank from Bayesian decision inference
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
Jen-Wei Kuo, Pu-Jen Cheng, Hsin-Min Wang
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Expected reciprocal rank for graded relevance
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
VLDB
2001
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Fast Evaluation Techniques for Complex Similarity Queries
Complex similarity queries, i.e., multi-feature multi-object queries, are needed to express the information need of a user against a large multimedia repository. Even if a user in...
Klemens Böhm, Michael Mlivoncic, Hans-Jö...