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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Fast and effective histogram construction
Histogram construction or sequence segmentation is a basic task with applications in database systems, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Its aim is to approximate a...
Felix Halim, Panagiotis Karras, Roland H. C. Yap
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
FACTO: a fact lookup engine based on web tables
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Chao Liu
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Growing parallel paths for entity-page discovery
In this paper, we use the structural and relational information on the Web to find entity-pages. Specifically, given a Web site and an entity-page (e.g., department and faculty ...
Tim Weninger, Fabio Fumarola, Cindy Xide Lin, Rick...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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12 years 24 days ago
MaskIt: privately releasing user context streams for personalized mobile applications
The rise of smartphones equipped with various sensors has enabled personalization of various applications based on user contexts extracted from sensor readings. At the same time i...
Michaela Götz, Suman Nath, Johannes Gehrke
ICIP
1999
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
Water-Filling: A Novel Way for Image Structural Feature Extraction
The performance of a content based image retrieval (CBIR) system is inherently constrained by the features adopted to represent the images in the database. In this paper, a new ap...
Xiang Sean Zhou, Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang