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CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
GECCO
2007
Springer
150views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Overcoming hierarchical difficulty by hill-climbing the building block structure
The Building Block Hypothesis suggests that Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are well-suited for hierarchical problems, where efficient solving requires proper problem decomposition and a...
David Iclanzan, Dan Dumitrescu
AAAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
COD: Online Temporal Clustering for Outbreak Detection
We present Cluster Onset Detection (COD), a novel algorithm to aid in detection of epidemic outbreaks. COD employs unsupervised learning techniques in an online setting to partiti...
Tomás Singliar, Denver Dash
SDM
2003
SIAM
129views Data Mining» more  SDM 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Approximate Query Answering by Model Averaging
In earlier work we have introduced and explored a variety of different probabilistic models for the problem of answering selectivity queries posed to large sparse binary data set...
Dmitry Pavlov, Padhraic Smyth
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
QuickSuggest: character prediction on web appliances
As traditional media and information devices integrate with the web, they must suddenly support a vastly larger database of relevant items. Many devices use remote controls with o...
Ullas Gargi, Rich Gossweiler