Many factorization models like matrix or tensor factorization have been proposed for the important application of recommender systems. The success of such factorization models dep...
We describe an approach for multi-modal characterization of social media by combining text features (e.g. tags as a prominent example of short, unstructured text labels) with spat...
Different buyers exhibit different purchasing behaviors. Some rush to purchase new products while others tend to be more cautious, waiting for reviews from people they trust. In...
Social networking, distributed problem solving and human computation have gained high visibility. Wikipedia is a well established service that incorporates aspects of these three ...
We present the MusicSurfer, a metadata free system for the interaction with massive collections of music. MusicSurfer automatically extracts descriptions related to instrumentatio...