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ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 2 months ago
Joint Ranking for Multilingual Web Search
Ranking for multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) is a task to rank documents of different languages solely based on their relevancy to the query regardless of query’s langu...
Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong
FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Symmetry and Approximability of Submodular Maximization Problems
Abstract— A number of recent results on optimization problems involving submodular functions have made use of the ”multilinear relaxation” of the problem [3], [8], [24], [14]...
Jan Vondrák
SSDBM
2005
IEEE
122views Database» more  SSDBM 2005»
15 years 10 months ago
Detection and Tracking of Discrete Phenomena in Sensor-Network Databases
This paper introduces a framework for Phenomena Detection and Tracking (PDT, for short) in sensor network databases. Examples of detectable phenomena include the propagation over ...
Mohamed H. Ali, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref, ...
SSDBM
2003
IEEE
164views Database» more  SSDBM 2003»
15 years 10 months ago
Approximate String Joins
String data is ubiquitous, and its management has taken on particular importance in the past few years. Approximate queries are very important on string data especially for more c...
Divesh Srivastava
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SIGMOD
1989
ACM
94views Database» more  SIGMOD 1989»
15 years 9 months ago
Redundancy in Spatial Databases
Spatial objects other than points and boxes can be stored in spatial indexes, but the techniques usually require the use of approximations that can be arbitrarily bad. This leads ...
Jack A. Orenstein