We propose a new ranking paradigm for relational databases called Structured Value Ranking (SVR). SVR uses structured data values to score (rank) the results of keyword search que...
Lin Guo, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kevin S. Beyer,...
It is challenging to browse multimedia on mobile devices with small displays. We present MiniMedia Surfer, a prototype application for interactively searching a multimedia collect...
Maryam Kamvar, Patrick Chiu, Lynn Wilcox, Sandeep ...
This thesis investigates application of clustering to multi-criteria ratings as a method of improving the precision of top-N recommendations. With the advent of ecommerce sites th...
This paper describes our experiments on the Geographical Query Parsing pilot-task for English at GeoCLEF 2007. Our system uses some modules of a Geographical Information Retrieval...
We apply a novel theoretical approach to better understand the behaviour of different types of bare-bones PSOs. It avoids many common but unrealistic assumptions often used in an...