Nearest neighbor (NN) searches represent an important class of queries in geographic information systems (GIS). Most nearest neighbor algorithms rely on static distance informatio...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Chi-N...
Recently the re-ranking algorithms have been quite popular for web search and data mining. However, one of the issues is that those algorithms treat the content and link informati...
Recent techniques increase rapidly the amount of our knowledge on interactions between proteins. The interpretation of these new information depends on our ability to retrieve kno...
Personal gazetteers record individuals' most important places, such as home, work, grocery store, etc. Using personal gazetteers in location-aware applications offers additio...
Changqing Zhou, Dan Frankowski, Pamela J. Ludford,...
This paper is concerned with the generalization ability of learning to rank algorithms for information retrieval (IR). We point out that the key for addressing the learning proble...
Yanyan Lan, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Hang...