SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
In this paper, we investigate a search-based face annotation framework by mining weakly labeled facial images that are freely available on the internet. A key component of such a ...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
The situation in which a choice is made is an important information for recommender systems. Context-aware recommenders take this information into account to make predictions. So ...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
We study a novel problem of social context summarization for Web documents. Traditional summarization research has focused on extracting informative sentences from standard docume...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
Web search behaviour studies, including eye-tracking studies of search result examination, have resulted in numerous insights to improve search result quality and presentation. Ye...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
The Bag-Of-Visual-Words (BOVW) paradigm is fast becoming a popular image representation for Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), mainly because of its better retrieval effectiven...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
We consider an interactive information retrieval task in which the user is interested in finding several to many relevant documents with minimal effort. Given an initial documen...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
We study the problem of automatically assigning appropriate music pieces to a picture or, in general, series of pictures. This task, commonly referred to as soundtrack suggestion,...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 18 days ago
2011
ACM
While a user’s preference is directly reflected in the interactive choice process between her and the recommender, this wealth of information was not fully exploited for learni...