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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A signal-to-noise approach to score normalization
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Avi T. Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Graph-based seed selection for web-scale crawlers
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...
Shuyi Zheng, Pavel Dmitriev, C. Lee Giles
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
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-...
MM
2009
ACM
154views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Generating location overviews with images and tags by mining user-generated travelogues
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...
Qiang Hao, Rui Cai, Xin-Jing Wang, Jiang-Ming Yang...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Getting recommender systems to think outside the box
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...