Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
There are several pieces of information that can be utilized in order to improve the efficiency of similarity searches on high-dimensional data. The most commonly used information...
Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
We present a general machine learning framework for modelling the phenomenon of missing information in data. We propose a masking process model to capture the stochastic nature of...
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Eduard C. Dragut, Clement T. Yu, A. Prasad Sistla,...