The classical (ad hoc) document retrieval problem has been traditionally approached through ranking according to heuristically developed functions (such as tf.idf or bm25) or gene...
This paper studies —from the perspective of efficient computation— a type of competition that is widespread throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, higher education, politic...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldberg, Piotr Kryst...
Background: Microarray technology provides an efficient means for globally exploring physiological processes governed by the coordinated expression of multiple genes. However, ide...
The maximum rank correlation (MRC) estimator was originally studied by Han [1987. Nonparametric analysis of a generalized regression model. J. Econometrics 35, 303–316] and Sher...
Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...