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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Combining audio content and social context for semantic music discovery
When attempting to annotate music, it is important to consider both acoustic content and social context. This paper explores techniques for collecting and combining multiple sourc...
Douglas Turnbull, Luke Barrington, Gert R. G. Lanc...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A neural network approach to ordinal regression
— Ordinal regression is an important type of learning, which has properties of both classification and regression. Here we describe an effective approach to adapt a traditional ...
Jianlin Cheng, Zheng Wang, Gianluca Pollastri
WISE
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluation of Result Merging Strategies for Metasearch Engines
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
EDBT
2010
ACM
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14 years 9 days ago
Turbo-charging hidden database samplers with overflowing queries and skew reduction
Recently, there has been growing interest in random sampling from online hidden databases. These databases reside behind form-like web interfaces which allow users to execute sear...
Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang 0004, Gautam Das
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
The Sinkhorn-Knopp Algorithm: Convergence and Applications
As long as a square nonnegative matrix A contains sufficient nonzero elements, then the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm can be used to balance the matrix, that is, to find a diagonal sc...
Philip A. Knight