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JCST
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
New Information Distance Measure and Its Application in Question Answering System
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...
Xian Zhang, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming Li
SCALESPACE
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Paretian Similarity for Partial Comparison of Non-rigid Objects
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...
DIAL
2006
IEEE
146views Image Analysis» more  DIAL 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Distance Measures for Layout-Based Document Image Retrieval
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...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
145views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
A New Study on Distance Metrics as Similarity Measurement
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...
Jie Yu, Jaume Amores, Nicu Sebe, Qi Tian
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Fairness Index Based on Variational Distance
Abstract— Fairness index among competing hosts in communication networks is an important system measurement. Several fairness index measurements have been proposed in the technic...
Jing Deng, Yunghsiang S. Han, Ben Liang