Month: February 2019

Grid-based Evaluation Metrics for Web Image Search by Xiaohui Xie, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Yunqiu Shao, Zixin Ye, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma is online now at this location. Compared to general web search engines, web image search engines display results in a different way. In web image search, results are typically placed…

Improving Outfit Recommendation with Co-supervision of Fashion Generation by Yujie Lin, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Jun Ma, and Maarten de Rijke is now available at this location. The task of fashion recommendation includes two main challenges:visual understanding and visual matching. Visual understanding aims to extract effective visual features. Visual matching aims to model a human notion…

Improving Neural Response Diversity with Frequency-Aware Cross-Entropy Loss by Shaojie Jiang, Pengjie Ren, Christof Monz, and Maarten de Rijke is online now at this location. Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) models have achieved encouraging performance on the dialogue response generation task. However, existing Seq2Seq-based response generation methods suffer from a low-diversity problem: they frequently generate generic responses, which make the…

ViTOR: Learning to Rank Webpages Based on Visual Features by Bram van den Akker, Ilya Markov, and Maarten de Rijke is available online now at this location. The visual appearance of a webpage carries valuable information about the page’s quality and can be used to improve the performance of learning to rank (LTR). We introduce the Visual…