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ICML
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
On the Consistency of Ranking Algorithms
We present a theoretical analysis of supervised ranking, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic consistency of algorithms based on minimizing a surrogate...
John Duchi, Lester W. Mackey, Michael I. Jordan
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mining, indexing, and searching for textual chemical molecule information on the web
Current search engines do not support user searches for chemical entities (chemical names and formulae) beyond simple keyword searches. Usually a chemical molecule can be represen...
Bingjun Sun, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles
ICDE
2005
IEEE
260views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
14 years 9 months ago
A Comparative Evaluation of Transparent Scaling Techniques for Dynamic Content Servers
We study several transparent techniques for scaling dynamic content web sites, and we evaluate their relative impact when used in combination. Full transparency implies strong dat...
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
CVDB
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Optimizing progressive query-by-example over pre-clustered large image databases
The typical mode for querying in an image content-based information system is query-by-example, which allows the user to provide an image as a query and to search for similar imag...
Anicet Kouomou Choupo, Laure Berti-Equille, Annie ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
An exploration of ranking heuristics in mobile local search
Users increasingly rely on their mobile devices to search local entities, typically businesses, while on the go. Even though recent work has recognized that the ranking signals in...
Yuanhua Lv, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Qiang Wu