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EDBT
2012
ACM
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Relevance search in heterogeneous networks
Conventional research on similarity search focuses on measuring the similarity between objects with the same type. However, in many real-world applications, we need to measure the...
Chuan Shi, Xiangnan Kong, Philip S. Yu, Sihong Xie...
COLING
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Resolving Surface Forms to Wikipedia Topics
Ambiguity of entity mentions and concept references is a challenge to mining text beyond surface-level keywords. We describe an effective method of disambiguating surface forms an...
Yiping Zhou, Lan Nie, Omid Rouhani-Kalleh, Flavian...
ICCV
2001
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
The Earth Mover's Distance is the Mallows Distance: Some Insights from Statistics
The Earth Mover's distance was first introduced as a purely empirical way to measure texture and color similarities. We show that it has a rigorous probabilistic interpretati...
Elizaveta Levina, Peter J. Bickel
UAI
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Context-specific approximation in probabilistic inference
There is evidence that the numbers in probabilistic inference don't really matter. This paper considers the idea that we can make a probabilistic model simpler by making fewe...
David Poole
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
CAPTCHA Challenge Tradeoffs: Familiarity of Strings versus Degradation of Images
It is a well documented fact that, for human readers, familiar text is more legible than unfamiliar text. Current-generation computer vision systems also are able to exploit some ...
Jon Louis Bentley, Sui-Yu Wang