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GIS
2008
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Mapping geographic coverage of the web
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Contextual search and name disambiguation in email using graphs
Similarity measures for text have historically been an important tool for solving information retrieval problems. In many interesting settings, however, documents are often closel...
Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen, Andrew Y. Ng
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou
CLEF
2009
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Prior Art Retrieval Using the Claims Section as a Bag of Words
We describe our participation in the 2009 CLEF-IP task, which was targeted at priorart search for topic patent documents. Our system retrieved patent documents based on a standard...
Suzan Verberne, Eva D'hondt
CIVR
2007
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Texture retrieval based on a non-parametric measure for multivariate distributions
In the present study, an efficient strategy for retrieving texture images from large texture databases is introduced and studied within a distributional-statistical framework. Our...
Vasileios K. Pothos, Christos Theoharatos, George ...