Relevance feedback, which traditionally uses the terms in the relevant documents to enrich the user's initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performanc...
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...
We demonstrate a method for collaborative ranking of future events. Previous work on recommender systems typically relies on feedback on a particular item, such as a movie, and ge...
Einat Minkov, Ben Charrow, Jonathan Ledlie, Seth J...
Abstract— Improving data quality is a time-consuming, laborintensive and often domain specific operation. A recent principled approach for repairing dirty database is to use dat...
Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Jennifer Nevi...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...