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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization
Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Characterizing typical and atypical user sessions in clickstreams
Millions of users retrieve information from the Internet using search engines. Mining these user sessions can provide valuable information about the quality of user experience and...
Narayanan Sadagopan, Jie Li
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
177views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 6 months ago
Exploiting context analysis for combining multiple entity resolution systems
Entity Resolution (ER) is an important real world problem that has attracted significant research interest over the past few years. It deals with determining which object descript...
Zhaoqi Chen, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotr...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
152views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2006»
16 years 3 months ago
Fast and robust quadratic placement combined with an exact linear net model
— This paper presents a robust quadratic placement approach, which offers both high-quality placements and excellent computational efficiency. The additional force which distrib...
Peter Spindler, Frank M. Johannes
ICPR
2010
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Eigenbubbles: An Enhanced Apparent BRDF Representation
In this paper we address the problem of relighting faces in presence of cast shadows and specularities. We present a solution to this problem by capturing the spatially varying Ap...
Ritwik Kumar, Vemuri Baba, Arunava Banerjee