Many automated learning procedures lack interpretability, operating effectively as a black box: providing a prediction tool but no explanation of the underlying dynamics that driv...
The analysis of user behavior on the Web presupposes a reliable reconstruction of the users' navigational activities. Cookies and server-generated session identifiers have be...
Sponsored search is a multi-billion dollar business that generates most of the revenue for search engines. Predicting the probability that users click on ads is crucial to sponsor...
Recently, there has been increasing interest in the issues of cost-sensitive learning and decision making in a variety of applications of data mining. A number of approaches have ...
In this paper, we define the problem of topic-sentiment analysis on Weblogs and propose a novel probabilistic model to capture the mixture of topics and sentiments simultaneously....
Qiaozhu Mei, Xu Ling, Matthew Wondra, Hang Su, Che...