In many text retrieval tasks, it is highly desirable to obtain a "similarity profile" of the document collection for a given query. We propose sampling-based techniques ...
This paper presents Adaptive Web Search (AWS), a novel search technique that combines personalized, social, and realtime collaborative search. Preliminary empirical results from a...
The XML has undoubtedly become a standard for data representation and manipulation. But most of XML documents are still created without the respective description of their structu...
Adapting to rank address the the problem of insufficient domainspecific labeled training data in learning to rank. However, the initial study shows that adaptation is not always...
Keke Chen, Jing Bai, Srihari Reddy, Belle L. Tseng
We introduce a symbol reordering technique that implicitly synchronizes variable-length codes, such that it is possible to directly access the i-th codeword without need of any sam...