Inspired by “GoogleTM Sets” and Bayesian sets, we consider the problem of retrieving complex objects and relations among them, i.e., ground atoms from a logical concept, given...
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
Online social media draws heavily on active reader participation, such as voting or rating of news stories, articles, or responses to a question. This user feedback is invaluable ...
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...