Personalization of web search results as a technique for improving user satisfaction has received notable attention in the research community over the past decade. Much of this wo...
Social media such as blogs, Facebook, Flickr, etc., presents data in a network format rather than classical IID distribution. To address the interdependency among data instances, ...
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
Learning a sequence classifier means learning to predict a sequence of output tags based on a set of input data items. For example, recognizing that a handwritten word is "ca...
In Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR), accurately ranking the returned images is of paramount importance, since users consider mostly the topmost results. The typical ranking st...
Fabio F. Faria, Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de...