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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
A probabilistic method for inferring preferences from clicks
Evaluating rankers using implicit feedback, such as clicks on documents in a result list, is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional evaluation methods based on explici...
Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
125views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Identifying meaningful return information for XML keyword search
Keyword search enables web users to easily access XML data without the need to learn a structured query language and to study possibly complex data schemas. Existing work has addr...
Ziyang Liu, Yi Chen
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Inferring Long-term User Properties Based on Users' Location History
Recent development of location technologies enables us to obtain the location history of users. This paper proposes a new method to infer users’ longterm properties from their r...
Yutaka Matsuo, Naoaki Okazaki, Kiyoshi Izumi, Yosh...
CORR
2004
Springer
140views Education» more  CORR 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
Integrating Defeasible Argumentation and Machine Learning Techniques
The field of machine learning (ML) is concerned with the question of how to construct algorithms that automatically improve with experience. In recent years many successful ML app...
Sergio Alejandro Gómez, Carlos Iván ...
ICIP
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Implicit spatial inference with sparse local features
This paper introduces a novel way to leverage the implicit geometry of sparse local features (e.g. SIFT operator) for the purposes of object detection and segmentation. A two-clas...
Deirdre O'Regan, Anil C. Kokaram