Previous studies of Non-Parametric Kernel (NPK) learning usually reduce to solving some Semi-Definite Programming (SDP) problem by a standard SDP solver. However, time complexity ...
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a query is a popular problem in information retrieval. Methods that learn ranking functions are difficult to o...
In this paper we analyze the Web coverage of three search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. We conducted a 15 month study collecting 15,770 Web content or information pages linked f...
Yang Sok Kim, Byeong Ho Kang, Paul Compton, Hirosh...
In this paper, we study a new problem of mining causal relation of queries in search engine query logs. Causal relation between two queries means event on one query is the causati...
Yizhou Sun, Kunqing Xie, Ning Liu, Shuicheng Yan, ...
Abstract. With the widespread use of e-business coupled with the public's awareness of data privacy issues and recent database security related legislations, incorporating sec...
Balakrishna R. Iyer, Sharad Mehrotra, Einar Myklet...