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CCCG
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Smallest enclosing circle centered on a query line segment
Given a set of n points P = {p1, p2, . . . , pn} in the plane, we show how to preprocess P such that for any query line segment L we can report in O(log n) time the smallest enclo...
Prosenjit Bose, Stefan Langerman, Sasanka Roy
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Geometric Approach to Lower Bounds for Approximate Near-Neighbor Search and Partial Match
This work investigates a geometric approach to proving cell probe lower bounds for data structure problems. We consider the approximate nearest neighbor search problem on the Bool...
Rina Panigrahy, Kunal Talwar, Udi Wieder
ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Classifying and Characterizing Query Intent
Understanding the intent underlying user queries may help personalize search results and improve user satisfaction. In this paper, we develop a methodology for using ad clickthroug...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Learning Semantic Query Suggestions
An important application of semantic web technology is recognizing human-defined concepts in text. Query transformation is a strategy often used in search engines to derive querie...
Edgar Meij, Marc Bron, Laura Hollink, Bouke Huurni...
ICALP
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Towards Optimal Range Medians
We consider the following problem: given an unsorted array of n elements, and a sequence of intervals in the array, compute the median in each of the subarrays defined by the inter...
Beat Gfeller, Peter Sanders