Recent advances in click model have positioned it as an attractive method for representing user preferences in web search and online advertising. Yet, most of the existing works f...
Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Tom Minka, Chenguan...
Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF), which has been widely applied in IR, aims to derive a distribution from the top n pseudo relevant documents D. However, these documents are often ...
Borrowing from concepts in expander graphs, we study the expansion properties of real-world, complex networks (e.g. social networks, unstructured peer-to-peer or P2P networks) and...
Joke-o-mat HD is a system that allows a user to navigate sitcoms (such as Seinfeld) by "narrative themes", including scenes, punchlines, and dialog segments. The themes ...
Based on the local keypoints extracted as salient image patches, an image can be described as a "bag-of-visualwords (BoW)" and this representation has appeared promising ...
Yu-Gang Jiang, Jun Yang 0003, Chong-Wah Ngo, Alexa...