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ICDE
2010
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Approximate Confidence Computation in Probabilistic Databases
Abstract-- This paper introduces a deterministic approximation algorithm with error guarantees for computing the probability of propositional formulas over discrete random variable...
Dan Olteanu, Jiewen Huang, Christoph Koch
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Improving text collection selection with coverage and overlap statistics
In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
Thomas Hernandez, Subbarao Kambhampati
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Bag-of-visual-words vs global image descriptors on two-stage multimodal retrieval
The Bag-Of-Visual-Words (BOVW) paradigm is fast becoming a popular image representation for Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), mainly because of its better retrieval effectiven...
Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, Konstantinos Zagoris, ...
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Term necessity prediction
The probability that a term appears in relevant documents ( ) is a fundamental quantity in several probabilistic retrieval models, however it is difficult to estimate without rele...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan