When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
We present an algorithm for updating the PageRank vector [1]. Due to the scale of the web, Google only updates its famous PageRank vector on a monthly basis. However, the Web chan...
Collaborative filtering (CF) is valuable in e-commerce, and for direct recommendations for music, movies, news etc. But today's systems have several disadvantages, including ...
Users of social networking services can connect with each other by forming communities for online interaction. Yet as the number of communities hosted by such websites grows over ...
We study the problem of automatically assigning appropriate music pieces to a picture or, in general, series of pictures. This task, commonly referred to as soundtrack suggestion,...