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CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Personalizing web search results by reading level
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
VLDB
2007
ACM
197views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 1 days ago
Indexable PLA for Efficient Similarity Search
Similarity-based search over time-series databases has been a hot research topic for a long history, which is widely used in many applications, including multimedia retrieval, dat...
Qiuxia Chen, Lei Chen 0002, Xiang Lian, Yunhao Liu...
MIR
2010
ACM
163views Multimedia» more  MIR 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
SNDocRank: a social network-based video search ranking framework
Multimedia ranking algorithms are usually user-neutral and measure the importance and relevance of documents by only using the visual contents and meta-data. However, users’ int...
Liang Gou, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Jung-Hyun Kim, Xiaolon...
KDD
2004
ACM
148views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
16 years 7 days ago
Spying Out Accurate User Preferences for Search Engine Adaptation
Abstract. Most existing search engines employ static ranking algorithms that do not adapt to the specific needs of users. Recently, some researchers have studied the use of clickth...
Lin Deng, Wilfred Ng, Xiaoyong Chai, Dik Lun Lee
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 15 days ago
Pagerank for product image search
In this paper, we cast the image-ranking problem into the task of identifying "authority" nodes on an inferred visual similarity graph and propose an algorithm to analyz...
Yushi Jing, Shumeet Baluja