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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Improving search engines using human computation games
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
PET
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Privacy-Preserving Policy-Based Information Transfer
As the global society becomes more interconnected and more privacy-conscious, communication protocols must balance access control with protecting participants’ privacy. A common ...
Emiliano De Cristofaro, Stanislaw Jarecki, Jihye K...
ML
2000
ACM
150views Machine Learning» more  ML 2000»
15 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Retrieval Agents: Internalizing Local Context and Scaling up to the Web
This paper discusses a novel distributed adaptive algorithm and representation used to construct populations of adaptive Web agents. These InfoSpiders browse networked information ...
Filippo Menczer, Richard K. Belew
PR
2006
141views more  PR 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Relaxational metric adaptation and its application to semi-supervised clustering and content-based image retrieval
The performance of many supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms is very sensitive to the choice of an appropriate distance metric. Previous work in metric learning and ada...
Hong Chang, Dit-Yan Yeung, William K. Cheung
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Clicked phrase document expansion for sponsored search ad retrieval
We present a document expansion approach that uses Conditional Random Field (CRF) segmentation to automatically extract salient phrases from ad titles. We then supplement the ad d...
Dustin Hillard, Chris Leggetter