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SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 29 days ago
Predicting user interests from contextual information
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Liwei Chen
ICDE
2000
IEEE
161views Database» more  ICDE 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
Efficient Query Refinement in Multimedia Databases
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Me...
ESA
1995
Springer
127views Algorithms» more  ESA 1995»
15 years 10 months ago
Optimized Binary Search and Text Retrieval
We present an algorithm that minimizes the expected cost of indirect binary search for data with non-constant access costs, such as disk data. Indirect binary search means that sor...
Eduardo F. Barbosa, Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo A. Ba...
ICEIS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Creation and Maintenance of Query Expansion Rules
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Stefania Castellani, Aaron N. Kaplan, Fréd&...
DSS
2006
95views more  DSS 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Process-driven collaboration support for intra-agency crime analysis
In law enforcement applications, there is a critical need for new tools that can facilitate efficient and effective collaboration. Through a field study, we observe that crime ana...
J. Leon Zhao, Henry H. Bi, Hsinchun Chen, Daniel D...