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ECML
2001
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Mining the Web for Synonyms: PMI-IR versus LSA on TOEFL
Abstract. This paper presents a simple unsupervised learning algorithm for recognizing synonyms, based on statistical data acquired by querying a Web search engine. The algorithm, ...
Peter D. Turney
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Yes, there is a correlation: - from social networks to personal behavior on the web
Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this pa...
Parag Singla, Matthew Richardson
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Learning to reduce the semantic gap in web image retrieval and annotation
We study in this paper the problem of bridging the semantic gap between low-level image features and high-level semantic concepts, which is the key hindrance in content-based imag...
Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang 0001, Hong-Jiang Zhang
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Positional relevance model for pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback is an effective technique for improving retrieval results. Traditional feedback algorithms use a whole feedback document as a unit to extract words for ...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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16 years 2 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li