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    Out-of-Domain Semantics to the Rescue! Zero-Shot Hybrid Retrieval Models

    The pre-trained language model (eg, BERT) based deep retrieval models achieved superior performance over lexical retrieval models (eg, BM25) in many passage retrieval tasks. However, limited work has been done to...

    Tao Chen, Mingyang Zhang, **g Lu, Michael Bendersky in Advances in Information Retrieval (2022)

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    Supervised Local Contexts Aggregation for Effective Session Search

    Existing research on web search has mainly focused on the optimization and evaluation of single queries. However, in some complex search tasks, users usually need to interact with the search engine multiple ti...

    Zhiwei Zhang, **gang Wang, Tao Wu, Pengjie Ren in Advances in Information Retrieval (2016)

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    Event Relationship Analysis for Temporal Event Search

    There are many news articles about events reported on the Web daily, and people are getting more and more used to reading news articles online to know and understand what events happened. For an event, (which ...

    Yi Cai, Qing Li, Haoran **e, Tao Wang in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2013)

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    An Exploratory Study of Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking

    With the ubiquity of current information retrieval systems, users move beyond individual searching to performing complex information seeking tasks together with collaborators for social, leisure or professiona...

    Yihan Tao, Anastasios Tombros in Advances in Information Retrieval (2013)

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    Efficient SPARQL Query Evaluation via Automatic Data Partitioning

    The volume of RDF data increases very fast within the last five years, e.g. the Linked Open Data cloud grows from 2 billions to 50 billions of RDF triples. With its wonderful scalability, cloud computing platf...

    Tao Yang, **chuan Chen, **aoyan Wang in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2013)

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    On Efficient k-Skyband Query Processing over Incomplete Data

    The Skyline query and its variants have been extensively explored in the literature. Existing approaches, except one, assume that all dimensions are available for all data items. However, many practical applicati...

    **aoye Miao, Yunjun Gao, Lu Chen, Gang Chen in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2013)

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    Path-Based Constrained Nearest Neighbor Search in a Road Network

    Nearest Neighbor (NN) queries are frequently used for location-dependent information services. In this paper, we study a new NN query called Path-based Constrained Nearest Neighbor (PCNN) query, which involves...

    Yingyuan **ao, Yan Shen, Tao Jiang, Heng Wang in Database and Expert Systems Applications (2012)

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    A Novel Approach for Finding Alternative Clusterings Using Feature Selection

    Alternative clustering algorithms target finding alternative grou**s of a dataset, on which traditional clustering algorithms can find only one even though many alternatives could exist. In this research, we...

    Vinh Thanh Tao, JongHyeok Lee in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2012)

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    On Efficient Reverse k-Skyband Query Processing

    This paper, for the first time, addresses the problem of efficient reverse k-skyband (RkSB) query processing. Given a set P of multi-dimensional points and a query point q, an RkSB query returns all the points in...

    Qing Liu, Yunjun Gao, Gang Chen, Qing Li in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2012)

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    Probabilistic Image Tagging with Tags Expanded By Text-Based Search

    Automatic image tagging automatically assigns image with semantic keywords called tags, which significantly facilitates image search and organization. Most of present image tagging approaches assign the query ...

    **aoming Zhang, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2011)

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    Efficient Histogram-Based Similarity Search in Ultra-High Dimensional Space

    Recent development in image content analysis has shown that the dimensionality of an image feature can reach thousands or more for satisfactory results in some applications such as face recognition. Although h...

    Jiajun Liu, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2011)

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    Querying Business Process Models Based on Semantics

    In recent years, the technology of business process management is being more widely used, so that there are more and more business process models (graphs). How to manage such a large number of business process...

    Tao **, Jianmin Wang, Lijie Wen in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2011)

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    Dynamic Video Collage

    This demo presents a video visualization technique named Dynamic Video Collage (DVC). By selecting representative frames, extracting their regions of interest, constructing collages with the gradually coming f...

    Yan Wang, Tao Mei, **gdong Wang, **an-Sheng Hua in Advances in Multimedia Modeling (2010)

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    Video Reference: A Video Question Answering Engine

    Community-based question answering systems have become very popular for providing answers to a wide variety of ”how-to” questions. However, most such systems present only textual answers. In many cases, users ...

    Lei Gao, Guangda Li, Yan-Tao Zheng, Richang Hong in Advances in Multimedia Modeling (2010)

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    Sensing Geographical Impact Factor of Multimedia News Events for Localized Retrieval and News Filtering

    News materials are reports on events occurring in a given time and location. Looking at the influence of individual event, an event that has news reported worldwide is strategically more important than one tha...

    Xu Zhang, **-Tao Li, Yong-Dong Zhang, Shi-Yong Neo in Advances in Multimedia Modeling (2010)

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    Learning Cooking Techniques from YouTube

    Cooking is a human activity with sophisticated process. Underlying the multitude of culinary recipes, there exist a set of fundamental and general cooking techniques, such as cutting, braising, slicing, and sa...

    Guangda Li, Richang Hong, Yan-Tao Zheng, Shuicheng Yan in Advances in Multimedia Modeling (2010)

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    Distributed Cache Indexing for Efficient Subspace Skyline Computation in P2P Networks

    Skyline queries play an important role in applications such as multi-criteria decision making and user preference systems. Recently, more attention has been paid to the problem of efficient skyline computation...

    Lijiang Chen, Bin Cui, Linhao Xu in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2010)

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    Dual Phase Learning for Large Scale Video Gait Recognition

    Accurate gait recognition from video is a complex process involving heterogenous features, and is still being developed actively. This article introduces a novel framework, called GC2F, for effective and efficien...

    Jialie Shen, HweeHwa Pang, Dacheng Tao, Xuelong Li in Advances in Multimedia Modeling (2010)

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    The Objects Interaction Matrix for Modeling Cardinal Directions in Spatial Databases

    Besides topological relations and approximate relations, cardinal directions have turned out to be an important class of qualitative spatial relations. In spatial databases and GIS they are frequently used as sel...

    Tao Chen, Markus Schneider in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2010)

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    Constraint-Aware Complex Event Pattern Detection over Streams

    In this paper, we propose a framework for constraint-aware pattern detection over event streams. Given the constraint of the input streams, our proposed framework on the fly checks the query satisfiability / u...

    Ming Li, Murali Mani, Elke A. Rundensteiner in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2010)