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GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Location disambiguation in local searches using gradient boosted decision trees
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
Ritesh Agrawal, James G. Shanahan
WSDM
2009
ACM
125views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Less is more: sampling the neighborhood graph makes SALSA better and faster
In this paper, we attempt to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of query-dependent link-based ranking algorithms such as HITS, MAX and SALSA. All these ranking algorith...
Marc Najork, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Rina Panigrahy
DIAGRAMS
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Effects of Users' Background Diagram Knowledge and Task Characteristics upon Information Display Selection
Abstract. This paper explores factors associated with effective external representation (ER) use. We describe an information-processing approach to the assessment of ER knowledge. ...
Beate Grawemeyer, Richard Cox
ASIAN
2005
Springer
178views Algorithms» more  ASIAN 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
An Approach for Service Discovery Based on Semantic Peer-to-Peer
The service discovery is a key step during Peer-to-Peer (P2P) converging with Web Service. In this paper, a semantic-P2P based approach is presented for web service discovery. To e...
Hao Wu, Hai Jin, Yunfa Li, Hanhan Chen
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
A probabilistic model for robust face alignment in videos
A new approach for localizing facial structure in videos is proposed in this paper by modeling shape alignment dynamically. The approach makes use of the spatial-temporal continuit...
Wei Zhang, Yi Zhou, Xiaoou Tang, Junhui Deng