Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Object detection with a learned classifier has been applied successfully to difficult tasks such as detecting faces and pedestrians. Systems using this approach usually learn the ...
We present SmallWorlds, a visual interactive graph-based interface that allows users to specify, refine and build item-preference profiles in a variety of domains. The interface f...
Brynjar Gretarsson, John O'Donovan, Svetlin Bostan...
As Facebook has become global, users from different cultural and socio-political contexts have joined the site. We present a case study investigating how both current and historic...
The number of video clips available online is growing at a tremendous pace. Conventionally, user-supplied metadata text, such as the title of the video and a set of keywords, has ...
Mehmet Emre Sargin, Hrishikesh Aradhye, Pedro J. M...