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DCC
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Geometric Burrows-Wheeler Transform: Linking Range Searching and Text Indexing
We introduce a new variant of the popular Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) called Geometric Burrows-Wheeler Transform (GBWT). Unlike BWT, which merely permutes the text, GBWT conve...
Yu-Feng Chien, Wing-Kai Hon, Rahul Shah, Jeffrey S...
GECCO
2010
Springer
148views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
14 years 18 days ago
Guarding against premature convergence while accelerating evolutionary search
The fundamental dichotomy in evolutionary algorithms is that between exploration and exploitation. Recently, several algorithms [8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 20] have been introduced that gu...
Josh C. Bongard, Gregory S. Hornby
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve Web Search
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong
ICALP
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Content Search through Comparisons
We study the problem of navigating through a database of similar objects using comparisons. This problem is known to be strongly related to the small-world network design problem....
Amin Karbasi, Stratis Ioannidis, Laurent Massouli&...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 days ago
Visualization of Search Results: A Comparative Evaluation of Text, 2D, and 3D Interfaces
Although there have been many prototypes of visualization in support of information retrieval, there has been little systematic evaluation that distinguishes the benefits of the v...
Marc M. Sebrechts, John Cugini, Sharon J. Laskowsk...