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SIGMOD
2011
ACM
234views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Ranking with uncertain scoring functions: semantics and sensitivity measures
Ranking queries report the top-K results according to a user-defined scoring function. A widely used scoring function is the weighted summation of multiple scores. Often times, u...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinen...
CORR
2008
Springer
85views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Ranking and Unranking of Hereditarily Finite Functions and Permutations
Prolog's ability to return multiple answers on backtracking provides an elegant mechanism to derive reversible encodings of combinatorial objects as Natural Numbers i.e. ranki...
Paul Tarau
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters
Optimising the parameters of ranking functions with respect to standard IR rank-dependent cost functions has eluded satisfactory analytical treatment. We build on recent advances ...
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, S...
MOC
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Voronoi's algorithm in purely cubic congruence function fields of unit rank 1
The first part of this paper classifies all purely cubic function fields over a finite field of characteristic not equal to 3. In the remainder, we describe a method for computing ...
Renate Scheidler, Andreas Stein