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COLING
2010
14 years 6 months ago
Cross-Market Model Adaptation with Pairwise Preference Data for Web Search Ranking
Machine-learned ranking techniques automatically learn a complex document ranking function given training data. These techniques have demonstrated the effectiveness and flexibilit...
Jing Bai, Fernando Diaz, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, ...
ICSNW
2004
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Knowledge Sifter: Agent-Based Ontology-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Databases Using Semantic Web Services
Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...
GEOINFORMATICA
2002
136views more  GEOINFORMATICA 2002»
14 years 11 months ago
Tabu Search Heuristic for Point-Feature Cartographic Label Placement
The generation of better label placement configurations in maps is a problem that comes up in automated cartographic production. The objective of a good label placement is to displ...
Missae Yamamoto, Gilberto Câmara, Luiz Anton...
CLEF
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
UB at GeoCLEF 2006
This paper summarizes the work done at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the GeoCLEF 2006 track. The approach presented uses pure IR techniques (indexing of sing...
Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart ...
CLEF
2009
Springer
15 years 28 days ago
Where in the Wikipedia Is That Answer? The XLDB at the GikiCLEF 2009 Task
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...