The relative difference between two data values is of interest in a number of application domains including temporal and spatial applications, schema versioning, data warehousing...
John F. Roddick, Kathleen Hornsby, Denise de Vries
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Often scientists seek to search for articles on the Web related to a particular chemical. When a scientist searches for a chemical formula using a search engine today, she gets ar...
Bingjun Sun, Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
We present iTag, a personalized tag recommendation system for blogs. iTag improves on the state-of-the-art in tag recommendation systems in two ways. First, iTag has much higher p...