EDBT
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Web search logs contain extremely sensitive data, as evidenced by the recent AOL incident. However, storing and analyzing search logs can be very useful for many purposes (i.e. in...
EDBT
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Cloud-based data management platforms often employ multitenant databases, where service providers achieve economies of scale by consolidating multiple tenants on shared servers. I...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Many important search tasks require multiple search sessions to complete. Tasks such as travel planning, large purchases, or job searches can span hours, days, or even weeks. Inev...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Hashtags are widely used in Twitter to define a shared context for events or topics. In this paper, we aim to predict hashtag popularity in near future (i.e., next day). Given a ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Assessors frequently disagree on the topical relevance of documents. How much of this disagreement is due to ambiguity in assessment instructions? We have two assessors assess TRE...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Online reputation management is about monitoring and handling the public image of entities (such as companies) on the Web. An important task in this area is identifying aspects of...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Versioned document collections are collections that contain multiple versions of each document. Important examples are Web archives, Wikipedia and other wikis, or source code and ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Similarity search is a key challenge for multimedia retrieval applications where data are usually represented in high-dimensional space. Among various algorithms proposed for simi...