There is an exploding amount of user-generated content on the Web due to the emergence of "Web 2.0" services, such as Blogger, MySpace, Flickr, and del.icio.us. The part...
Ka Cheung Sia, Junghoo Cho, Yun Chi, Belle L. Tsen...
Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We beli...
Al Schmidt, Jack Li, Landon P. Cox, Romit Roy Chou...
With an explosive growth of blogs, information seeking in blogosphere becomes more and more challenging. One example task is to find the most relevant topical blogs against a give...
With increasing concerns about the personalized information space, users have been posting various types of information on their own blogs. Due to the domain-specific properties of...
Aggregate ranking tasks are those where documents are not the final ranking outcome, but instead an intermediary component. For instance, in expert search, a ranking of candidate ...