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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Faster top-k document retrieval using block-max indexes
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Ideal-Observer Performance under Signal and Background Uncertainty
We use the performance of the Bayesian ideal observer as a figure of merit for hardware optimization because this observer makes optimal use of signal-detection information. Due t...
Subok Park, Matthew A. Kupinski, Eric Clarkson, Ha...
CIVR
2007
Springer
154views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Representing shape with a spatial pyramid kernel
The objective of this paper is classifying images by the object categories they contain, for example motorbikes or dolphins. There are three areas of novelty. First, we introduce ...
Anna Bosch, Andrew Zisserman, Xavier Muñoz
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Building an efficient preference XML query processor
Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
SungRan Cho, Wolf-Tilo Balke
TREC
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...