Abstract. The following paper proposes a new kind of relevance feedback. It shows how so called query profiles can be employed for disambiguation and clarification. Query profiles ...
In this paper we evaluate and compare five commercial off-the-shelf platforms for building converged serviceoriented architectures in an ambient computing environment. To this en...
Davy Preuveneers, Julien Pauty, Dimitri Van Landuy...
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One voting rule of particular interest is the Kemeny rule, which minimizes the...
Vincent Conitzer, Andrew J. Davenport, Jayant Kala...
: Information needs like searching scientific literature that involve high recall rates are difficult to satisfy with ad hoc keyword search. We propose to state queries implicitl...
We study the problem of learning to rank images for image retrieval. For a noisy set of images indexed or tagged by the same keyword, we learn a ranking model from some training e...