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CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Improving search engines using human computation games
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
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...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 15 days ago
Page hunt: improving search engines using human computation games
There has been a lot of work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines. In this paper, we suggest using human computation games to elicit data from players t...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
CVPR
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Enforcing Similarity Constraints with Integer Programming for Better Scene Text Recognition
The recognition of text in everyday scenes is made difficult by viewing conditions, unusual fonts, and lack of linguistic context. Most methods integrate a priori appearance info...
David Smith, Jacqueline Feild, Eric Learned-Miller
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Time is of the essence: improving recency ranking using Twitter data
Realtime web search refers to the retrieval of very fresh content which is in high demand. An effective portal web search engine must support a variety of search needs, including ...
Anlei Dong, Ruiqiang Zhang, Pranam Kolari, Jing Ba...