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WSDM
2012
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic models for personalizing web search
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
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WEBI
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Expertise Matching via Constraint-Based Optimization
Abstract--Expertise matching, aiming to find the alignment between experts and queries, is a common problem in many real applications such as conference paper-reviewer assignment, ...
Wenbin Tang, Jie Tang, Chenhao Tan
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WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Searching with context
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
Reiner Kraft, Chi-Chao Chang, Farzin Maghoul, Ravi...
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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
258views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 3 months ago
Continuous obstructed nearest neighbor queries in spatial databases
In this paper, we study a novel form of continuous nearest neighbor queries in the presence of obstacles, namely continuous obstructed nearest neighbor (CONN) search. It considers...
Yunjun Gao, Baihua Zheng
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UIST
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Preference elicitation for interface optimization
Decision-theoretic optimization is becoming a popular tool in the user interface community, but creating accurate cost (or utility) functions has become a bottleneck — in most c...
Krzysztof Gajos, Daniel S. Weld