A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
The problem of combining the ranked preferences of many experts is an old and surprisingly deep problem that has gained renewed importance in many machine learning, data mining, a...
Search queries on biomedical databases like PubMed often return a large number of results, only a small subset of which is relevant to the user. Ranking and categorization, which c...
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
We study the retrieval task that ranks a set of objects for a given query in the pairwise preference learning framework. Recently researchers found out that raw features (e.g. word...
Xi Chen, Bing Bai, Yanjun Qi, Qihang Lin, Jaime G....