In many applications, good ranking is a highly desirable performance for a classifier. The criterion commonly used to measure the ranking quality of a classification algorithm is ...
Due to the structural heterogeneity of XML, queries are often interpreted approximately. This is achieved by relaxing the query and ranking the results based on their relevance to ...
Registration of an image, the query or reference, to a database of rotated and translated exemplars constitutes an important image retrieval and indexing application which arises i...
Huzefa Neemuchwala, Alfred O. Hero, Paul L. Carson
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
The structure of the web is increasingly being used to improve organization, search, and analysis of information on the web. For example, Google uses the text in citing documents ...
Eric J. Glover, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Steve Law...