In a question answering (QA) system, the fundamental problem is how to measure the distance between a question and an answer, hence ranking different answers. We demonstrate that s...
In this paper, we address the problem of partial comparison of non-rigid objects. We introduce a new class of set-valued distances, related to the concept of Pareto optimality in e...
Alexander M. Bronstein, Michael M. Bronstein, Alfr...
Most methods for document image retrieval rely solely on text information to find similar documents. This paper describes a way to use layout information for document image retrie...
Joost van Beusekom, Daniel Keysers, Faisal Shafait...
Distance metric is widely used in similarity estimation. In this paper we find that the most popular Euclidean and Manhattan distance may not be suitable for all data distribution...
Abstract— Fairness index among competing hosts in communication networks is an important system measurement. Several fairness index measurements have been proposed in the technic...