In this work we present topic diversification, a novel method designed to balance and diversify personalized recommendation lists in order to reflect the user's complete spec...
Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Sean M. McNee, Joseph A. Kons...
In this paper we propose a hierarchical clustering engine, called SnakeT, that is able to organize on-the-fly the search results drawn from 16 commodity search engines into a hier...
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
We present a principled methodology for filtering news stories by formal measures of information novelty, and show how the techniques can be used to custom-tailor newsfeeds based ...
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
It is increasingly common for users to interact with the web using a number of different aliases. This trend is a doubleedged sword. On one hand, it is a fundamental building bloc...