When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Abstract. Sensor networks monitor physical phenomena over large geographic regions. Scientists can gain valuable insight into these phenomena, if they understand the underlying dat...
In this paper, we present a new method for learning to finding translations and transliterations on the Web for a given term. The approach involves using a small set of terms and ...
Joseph Z. Chang, Jason S. Chang, Jyh-Shing Roger J...
We examine the case of over-specialization in recommender systems, which results from returning items that are too similar to those previously rated by the user. We propose Outsid...
Zeinab Abbassi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Laksh...
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...