TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We develop a system for 3D object retrieval based on sketched feature lines as input. For objective evaluation, we collect a large number of query sketches from human users that a...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
It is often highly valuable for organizations to have their data analyzed by external agents. However, any program that computes on potentially sensitive data risks leaking inform...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
The rise of smartphones equipped with various sensors has enabled personalization of various applications based on user contexts extracted from sensor readings. At the same time i...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
When working on a new project, researchers need to devote a significant amount of time and effort to surveying the relevant literature. This is required in order to gain experti...
WSDM
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
One popular form of semantic search observed in several modern search engines is to recognize query patterns that trigger instant answers or domain-specific search, producing sem...
WSDM
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
Microblogs have become an important source of information for the purpose of marketing, intelligence, and reputation management. Streams of microblogs are of great value because o...
WSDM
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
The phenomenal growth in the volume of easily accessible information via various web-based services has made it essential for service providers to provide users with personalized ...
WSDM
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...
WSDM
2012
ACM
2012
ACM
Large-scale analysis of individual and task differences in search result page examination strategies
12 years 7 months ago
Understanding the impact of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies is important in developing improved search engines. Characterizing these e...
WSDM
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
Most standard information retrieval models use a single source of information (e.g., the retrieval corpus) for query formulation tasks such as term and phrase weighting and query ...