For effective retrieval of visual information, statistical learning plays a pivotal role. Statistical learning in such a context faces at least two major mathematical challenges: ...
Personalized PageRank expresses backlink-based page quality around user-selected pages in a similar way to PageRank over the entire Web. Algorithms for computing personalized Page...
This paper presents an approach for the Opinion Finding task at TREC 2008 Blog Track. For the Ad-hoc Retrieval subtask, we adopt language model to retrieve relevant documents. For...
PageRank is one of the most popular link analysis algorithms that have shown their effectiveness in web search. However, PageRank only consider hyperlink information. In this paper...
Hui-Min Yan, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, ...
Abstract. Many realistic user tasks involve the retrieval of specific entities instead of just any type of documents. Examples of information needs include ‘Countries where one ...
Arjen P. de Vries, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A....