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...
Many recommendation and retrieval tasks can be represented as proximity queries on a labeled directed graph, with typed nodes representing documents, terms, and metadata, and labe...
The design of feature spaces for local image descriptors is an important research subject in computer vision due to its applicability in several problems, such as visual classifi...
Gene expression (microarray) data have been used widely in bioinformatics. The expression data of a large number of genes from small numbers of subjects are used to identify inform...
The performance of graph based clustering methods critically depends on the quality of the distance function, used to compute similarities between pairs of neighboring nodes. In t...