Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...
Abstract. Can a system designed primarily for the purpose of databasetype storage and retrieval be used for information-retrieval tasks? This was one of the questions that led us t...
Experiments in High Energy Physics (HEP) generate tremendous amounts of data. For example, the accelerator at CERN is expected to generate petabytes per year. New HEP discoveries ...
Jagadeesh Kasaraneni, Theodore Johnson, Paul Avery
Planning can often be simplified by decomposing the task into smaller tasks arranged hierarchically. Charlin et al. [4] recently showed that the hierarchy discovery problem can be...
Similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task in modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology, medical imaging, computer aid...
Stefan Brecheisen, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kr&oum...