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ICDE
2009
IEEE
214views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Ranking with Uncertain Scores
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization
Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
171views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Surrogate Ranking for Very Expensive Similarity Queries
1 We consider the problem of similarity search in applications where the cost of computing the similarity between two records is very expensive, and the similarity measure is not a...
Chris Jermaine, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Ravi Jampani, T...
FGR
2011
IEEE
354views Biometrics» more  FGR 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical ranking of facial attributes
Abstract— We propose a novel hierarchical structured prediction approach for ranking images of faces based on attributes. We view ranking as a bipartite graph matching problem; l...
Ankur Datta, Rogerio Feris, Daniel A. Vaquero
CORR
2010
Springer
141views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
A database approach to information retrieval: The remarkable relationship between language models and region models
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Djoerd Hiemstra, Vojkan Mihajlovic