Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
One of the most important steps in web crawling is determining the starting points, or seed selection. This paper identifies and explores the problem of seed selection in webscal...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
Automatically generating location overviews in the form of both visual and textual descriptions is highly desired for online services such as travel planning, to provide attractiv...
We examine the case of over-specialization in recommender systems, which results from returning items that are too similar to those previously rated by the user. We propose Outsid...
Zeinab Abbassi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Laksh...