Understanding intents from search queries can improve a user’s search experience and boost a site’s advertising profits. Query tagging via statistical sequential labeling mode...
Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, Jakub Szyma...
We present a framework for modeling the spread of pathogens throughout a population and generating policies that minimize the impact of those pathogens on the population. This fra...
In this paper, we investigate an approach based on support vector machines (SVMs) for detection of microcalcification (MC) clusters in digital mammograms, and propose a successive ...
Issam El-Naqa, Yongyi Yang, Miles N. Wernick, Niko...
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...