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CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improving search engines using human computation games
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
FGR
2004
IEEE
169views Biometrics» more  FGR 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Skin Detection using Neighborhood Information
Skin detection is employed in tasks like face detection and tracking, naked people detection, hand detection and tracking, people retrieval in databases and Internet, etc. However...
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae
CORR
2008
Springer
133views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Emergence of Spontaneous Order Through Neighborhood Formation in Peer-to-Peer Recommender Systems
The advent of the Semantic Web necessitates paradigm shifts away from centralized client/server architectures towards decentralization and peer-to-peer computation, making the exi...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Cai-Nico...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Online expansion of rare queries for sponsored search
Sponsored search systems are tasked with matching queries to relevant advertisements. The current state-of-the-art matching algorithms expand the user's query using a variety...
Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, Evgeniy Gabrilovi...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Unsupervised query segmentation using generative language models and wikipedia
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...
Bin Tan, Fuchun Peng