The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
: Microarray data includes tens of thousands of gene expressions simultaneously, so it can be effectively used in identifying the phenotypes of diseases. However, the retrieval of ...
Dong-wan Hong, Jong-keun Lee, Sung-soo Park, Sang-...
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...
We address the problem of learning distance metrics using side-information in the form of groups of "similar" points. We propose to use the RCA algorithm, which is a sim...
This paper presents the first combinatorial polynomial algorithm for minimizing bisubmodular functions, extending the scaling algorithm for submodular function minimization due to ...