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WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Learning to re-rank: query-dependent image re-ranking using click data
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...
Vidit Jain, Manik Varma
CW
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Supporting Presentation Techniques based on Virtual Humans in Educational Virtual Worlds
Educational Virtual Worlds (EVWs) allow one to circumvent physical, safety, and cost constraints that often affect real-world training and learning scenarios. Virtual humans can i...
Luca Chittaro, Lucio Ieronutti, Sara Rigutti
ICDE
2010
IEEE
283views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Personalized Web Search with Location Preferences
As the amount of Web information grows rapidly, search engines must be able to retrieve information according to the user's preference. In this paper, we propose a new web sea...
Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung, Dik Lun Lee, Wang-Chien Le...
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Ranking in context-aware recommender systems
As context is acknowledged as an important factor that can affect users’ preferences, many researchers have worked on improving the quality of recommender systems by utilizing ...
Minsuk Kahng, Sangkeun Lee, Sang-goo Lee
P2P
2006
IEEE
229views Communications» more  P2P 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Cost-Aware Processing of Similarity Queries in Structured Overlays
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Manfred Hauswir...