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ICDE
2006
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
The Gauss-Tree: Efficient Object Identification in Databases of Probabilistic Feature Vectors
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
Alexey Pryakhin, Christian Böhm, Matthias Sch...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Ranking-based processing of SQL queries
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
Hany Azzam, Thomas Roelleke, Sirvan Yahyaei
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
TREC
2003
13 years 8 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,...
ACL
2008
13 years 8 months ago
A Probabilistic Model for Fine-Grained Expert Search
Expert search, in which given a query a ranked list of experts instead of documents is returned, has been intensively studied recently due to its importance in facilitating the ne...
Shenghua Bao, Huizhong Duan, Qi Zhou, Miao Xiong, ...