Trust between a pair of users is an important piece of information for users in an online community (such as electronic commerce websites and product review websites) where users ...
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...
Motivated by our work with political scientists who need to manually analyze large Web archives of news sites, we present SpotSigs, a new algorithm for extracting and matching sig...
Martin Theobald, Jonathan Siddharth, Andreas Paepc...
We investigate to what extent people making relevance judgements for a reusable IR test collection are exchangeable. We consider three classes of judge: "gold standard" ...
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff, Paul Th...
Comments left by readers on Web documents contain valuable information that can be utilized in different information retrieval tasks including document search, visualization, and ...