We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...
Query suggestion has been an effective approach to help users narrow down to the information they need. However, most of existing studies focused on only popular/head queries. Si...
This paper presents a novel graph-theoretic approach, named ratio contour, to extract perceptually salient boundaries from a set of noisy boundary fragments detected in real image...
Loopy belief propagation has been employed in a wide variety of applications with great empirical success, but it comes with few theoretical guarantees. In this paper we investiga...
Sujay Sanghavi, Dmitry M. Malioutov, Alan S. Wills...
This paper solves the open problem of extracting the maximal number of iterations from a loop that can be executed in parallel on chip multiprocessors. Our algorithm solves it opt...
Duo Liu, Zili Shao, Meng Wang, Minyi Guo, Jingling...