Automatic folksonomy construction from tags has attracted much attention recently. However, inferring hierarchical relations between concepts from tags has a drawback in that it i...
At Google, experimentation is practically a mantra; we evaluate almost every change that potentially affects what our users experience. Such changes include not only obvious user-...
Diane Tang, Ashish Agarwal, Deirdre O'Brien, Mike ...
In recent years, the KDD process has been advocated to be an iterative and interactive process. It is seldom the case that a user is able to answer immediately with a single query...
Arianna Gallo, Roberto Esposito, Rosa Meo, Marco B...
Social media forms a central domain for the production and dissemination of real-time information. Even though such flows of information have traditionally been thought of as diffu...
Today’s Web browsers allow users to open links in new windows or tabs. This action, which we call ‘branching’, is sometimes performed on search results when the user plans t...