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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2010
Springer
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2006
Springer
Optimising the parameters of ranking functions with respect to standard IR rank-dependent cost functions has eluded satisfactory analytical treatment. We build on recent advances ...
ICB
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Automatic personal identification based on palmprints has been considered as a promising technology in biometrics family during recent years. In pursuit of accurate palmp...
TREC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
: We document our participation in the TREC 2008 Legal Track. This year we focused solely on selecting rank cut-offs for optimizing the given evaluation measure per topic.
PVLDB
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
The measure of similarity between objects is a very useful tool in many areas of computer science, including information retrieval. SimRank is a simple and intuitive measure of th...