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ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Fingerprint Enhancement with Dyadic Scale-Space
Fingerprint enhancement is a critical step in automatic fingerprint verification system. Most of the existing enhancement uses a set of contextual filters to enhance fingerprint. ...
Jiangang Cheng, Jie Tian, Tanghui Zhang
ACSC
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Needles and Haystacks: A Search Engine for Personal Information Collections
Information retrieval systems can be partitioned into two main classes: large-scale systems that make use of an inverted index or some other auxiliary data structure, intended for...
Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat
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CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Fast query expansion using approximations of relevance models
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) improves search quality by expanding the query using terms from high-ranking documents from an initial retrieval. Although PRF can often result in ...
Marc-Allen Cartright, James Allan, Victor Lavrenko...
INFORMS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
A Stochastic Approximation Method to Compute Bid Prices in Network Revenue Management Problems
We present a stochastic approximation method to compute bid prices in network revenue management problems. The key idea is to visualize the total expected revenue as a function of...
Huseyin Topaloglu
ECIR
2004
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Fulltext Information Retrieval in Digital Multilingual Encyclopedias with Weighted Pattern Morphing
This paper introduces a new approach to add fault-tolerance to a fulltext retrieval system. The weighted pattern morphing technique circumvents some of the disadvantages of the wid...
Wolfram M. Esser