We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Background: For successful protein structure prediction by comparative modeling, in addition to identifying a good template protein with known structure, obtaining an accurate seq...
Methods that reduce the amount of labeled data needed for training have focused more on selecting which documents to label than on which queries should be labeled. One exception t...
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
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...