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WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Search result diversity for informational queries
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
Michael J. Welch, Junghoo Cho, Christopher Olston
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Improving recommendation for long-tail queries via templates
The ability to aggregate huge volumes of queries over a large population of users allows search engines to build precise models for a variety of query-assistance features such as ...
Idan Szpektor, Aristides Gionis, Yoelle Maarek
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
A case for query by image and text content: searching computer help using screenshots and keywords
The multimedia information retrieval community has dedicated extensive research effort to the problem of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However, these systems find their ma...
Tom Yeh, Brandyn White, Jose San Pedro, Boris Katz...
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 11 months ago
Collective response of human populations to large-scale emergencies
Despite recent advances in uncovering the quantitative features of stationary human activity patterns, many applications, from pandemic prediction to emergency response, require a...
James P. Bagrow, Dashun Wang, Albert-Lászl&...
HT
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Personalisation in the wild: providing personalisation across semantic, social and open-web resources
One of the key motivating factors for information providers to use personalisation is to maximise the benefit to the user in accessing their content. However, traditionally such s...
Ben Steichen, Alexander O'Connor, Vincent Wade