Recently, mean-variance analysis has been proposed as a novel paradigm to model document ranking in Information Retrieval. The main merit of this approach is that it diversifies t...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
Abstract. We develop a variant of Gordon and Hankin's concurrent object calculus with support for flexible access control on methods. We investigate safe administration and ac...
Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) provides a lower rank approximation of a matrix. Due to nonnegativity imposed on the factors, it gives a latent structure that is often mor...
This paper address the problem of entity linking. Specifically, given an entity mentioned in unstructured texts, the task is to link this entity with an entry stored in the existi...
We consider a repository of animation models and motions that can be reused to generate new animation sequences. For instance, a user can retrieve an animation of a dog kicking it...
Akanksha Huang, Zhiyong Huang, B. Prabhakaran, Con...