Tree patterns with full text search form the core of both XQuery Full Text and the NEXI query language. On such queries, users expect a relevance-ranked list of XML elements as an...
Monte-Carlo evaluation consists in estimating a position by averaging the outcome of several random continuations, and can serve as an evaluation function at the leaves of a min-ma...
An unsupervised clustering of the webpages on a website is a primary requirement for most wrapper induction and automated data extraction methods. Since page content can vary dras...
Gradient Boosted Regression Trees (GBRT) are the current state-of-the-art learning paradigm for machine learned websearch ranking — a domain notorious for very large data sets. ...
Stephen Tyree, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Kunal Agrawal...
A new reduction on the size of the search space for cocyclic Hadamard matrices over dihedral groups D4t is described, in terms of the so called central distribution. This new searc...