This paper initiates research on the foundations of ranking systems, a fundamental ingredient of basic e-commerce and Internet Technologies. In order to understand the essence and...
The rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras has lead to an explosive growth of consumer photo collections. In this paper, we present a (quasi) real-time t...
In this paper, we propose a preference framework for information retrieval in which the user and the system administrator are enabled to express preference annotations on search ke...
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
Abstract. We propose a number of techniques for learning a global ranking from data that may be incomplete and imbalanced -- characteristics that are almost universal to modern dat...