The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
Filtering feature selection method (filtering method, for short) is a well-known feature selection strategy in pattern recognition and data mining. Filtering method outperforms ot...
Ou Wu, Haiqiang Zuo, Mingliang Zhu, Weiming Hu, Ju...
This paper presents a natural extension of stagewise ranking to the the case of infinitely many items. We introduce the infinite generalized Mallows model (IGM), describe its prop...
: 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...
In this paper, we propose a Bayesian learning approach to promoting diversity for information retrieval in biomedicine and a re-ranking model to improve retrieval performance in t...