Implicit user feedback, including click-through and subsequent browsing behavior, is crucial for evaluating and improving the quality of results returned by search engines. Severa...
Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...
Existing feature extraction methods explore either global statistical or local geometric information underlying the data. In this paper, we propose a general framework to learn fea...
Shuang-Hong Yang, Hongyuan Zha, Shaohua Kevin Zhou...
: Geographic information (e.g., locations, networks, and nearest neighbors) are unique and different from other aspatial attributes (e.g., population, sales, or income). It is a ch...
Model-based image recognition requires a general model of the object that should be detected in an image. In many applications such models are not known a-priori instead of they mu...