Influence is a complex and subtle force that governs the dynamics of social networks as well as the behaviors of involved users. Understanding influence can benefit various applic...
Lu Liu, Jie Tang, Jiawei Han, Meng Jiang, Shiqiang...
The paper presents a grounded theory analysis of 395 user responses to the survey question, “What is the worst song ever?” Important factors uncovered include: lyric quality, ...
Sally Jo Cunningham, J. Stephen Downie, David Bain...
The performance of information retrieval on the Web is heavily influenced by the organization of Web pages, user navigation patterns, and guidance-related functions. Having observ...
Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, G. Kim, Ja-Young ...
We present a principled methodology for filtering news stories by formal measures of information novelty, and show how the techniques can be used to custom-tailor newsfeeds based ...
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz