Abstract. In preference learning, the algorithm observes pairwise relative judgments (preference) between items as training data for learning an ordering of all items. This is an i...
Information management applications exhibit a wide range of query performance and result freshness goals. Some applications, such as web search, require interactive performance, b...
Kimberly Keeton, Charles B. Morrey III, Craig A. N...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
The Jaccard/Tanimoto coefficient is an important workload, used in a large variety of problems including drug design fingerprinting, clustering analysis, similarity web searching a...
Vipin Sachdeva, Douglas M. Freimuth, Chris Mueller
Nowadays contents in Internet like weblogs, wikipedia and news sites become "live". How to notify and provide users with the relevant contents becomes a challenge. Unlike...
Weixiong Rao, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Lei Chen 0002, Hanh...