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JIDM
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
Evaluation of Conditional Preference Queries
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....
Fabiola S. F. Pereira, Sandra de Amo
MM
2006
ACM
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16 years 23 days ago
Video search reranking via information bottleneck principle
We propose a novel and generic video/image reranking algorithm, IB reranking, which reorders results from text-only searches by discovering the salient visual patterns of relevant...
Winston H. Hsu, Lyndon S. Kennedy, Shih-Fu Chang
WWW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
FACTO: a fact lookup engine based on web tables
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Chao Liu
GIS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Querying geo-social data by bridging spatial networks and social networks
Recording the location of people using location-acquisition technologies, such as GPS, allows generating life patterns, which associate people to places they frequently visit. Con...
Yerach Doytsher, Ben Galon, Yaron Kanza
RECSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Rate it again: increasing recommendation accuracy by user re-rating
A common approach to designing Recommender Systems (RS) consists of asking users to explicitly rate items in order to collect feedback about their preferences. However, users have...
Xavier Amatriain, Josep M. Pujol, Nava Tintarev, N...