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IICS
2010
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
An Evaluation Framework for Semantic Search in P2P Networks
: We address the problem of evaluating peer-to-peer information retrieval (P2PIR) systems with semantic overlay structure. The P2PIR community lacks a commonly accepted testbed, su...
Florian Holz, Hans Friedrich Witschel, Gregor Hein...
BMCBI
2005
94views more  BMCBI 2005»
15 years 6 months ago
Measuring similarities between transcription factor binding sites
Background: Collections of transcription factor binding profiles (Transfac, Jaspar) are essential to identify regulatory elements in DNA sequences. Subsets of highly similar profi...
Szymon M. Kielbasa, Didier Gonze, Hanspeter Herzel
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Document allocation policies for selective searching of distributed indexes
Indexes for large collections are often divided into shards that are distributed across multiple computers and searched in parallel to provide rapid interactive search. Typically,...
Anagha Kulkarni, Jamie Callan
STOC
2006
ACM
108views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Gowers uniformity, influence of variables, and PCPs
Gowers [Gow98, Gow01] introduced, for d 1, the notion of dimension-d uniformity Ud (f) of a function f : G C, where G is a finite abelian group. Roughly speaking, if a function ...
Alex Samorodnitsky, Luca Trevisan