RankSVM (Herbrich et al, 2000; Joachims, 2002) is a pairwise method for designing ranking models. SVMLight is the only publicly available software for RankSVM. It is slow and, due ...
This paper describes the development of a structured document collection containing user-generated text and numerical metadata for exploring the exploitation of metadata in inform...
Walid Magdy, Jinming Min, Johannes Leveling, Garet...
Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
We study the problem of improving the user perceived quality of online games in which multiple players form a game session and exchange game-state updates over an overlay network....
Active models are widely used in applications like image segmentation and tracking. Region-based active models are known for robustness to weak edges and high computational comple...
Wei Yu, Franz Franchetti, Yao-Jen Chang, Tsuhan Ch...