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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling multi-step relevance propagation for expert finding
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Activity Perception by Hierarchical Bayesian Models
We propose a novel unsupervised learning framework for activity perception. To understand activities in complicated scenes from visual data, we propose a hierarchical Bayesian mod...
Xiaogang Wang, Xiaoxu Ma, Eric Grimson
LOCA
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Web-Enhanced GPS
Location-based services like reminders, electronic graffiti, and tourist guides normally require a custom, location-sensitive database that must be custom-tailored for the applicat...
Ramaswamy Hariharan, John Krumm, Eric Horvitz
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Hubs of knowledge: using the functional link structure in Biozon to mine for biologically significant entities
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
Paul Shafer, Timothy Isganitis, Golan Yona
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty