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ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Active Sampling for Rank Learning via Optimizing the Area under the ROC Curve
Abstract. Learning ranking functions is crucial for solving many problems, ranging from document retrieval to building recommendation systems based on an individual user’s prefer...
Pinar Donmez, Jaime G. Carbonell
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Statistical Modeling and Learning for Recognition-Based Handwritten Numeral String Segmentation
This paper proposes a recognition based approach to handwritten numeral string segmentation. We consider two classes: numeral strings segmented correctly or not. The feature vecto...
Yanjie Wang, Xiabi Liu, Yunde Jia
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Unsupervised Selection and Discriminative Estimation of Orthogonal Gaussian Mixture Models for Handwritten Digit Recognition
The problem of determining the appropriate number of components is important in finite mixture modeling for pattern classification. This paper considers the application of an unsu...
Xuefeng Chen, Xiabi Liu, Yunde Jia
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Workload-aware trie indices for XML
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
Yuqing Wu, Sofia Brenes, Hyungdae Yi
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GECCO
2009
Springer
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16 years 1 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...