We present a probabilistic model for a document corpus that combines many of the desirable features of previous models. The model is called “GaP” for Gamma-Poisson, the distri...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
We propose a Web recommendation system based on a maximum entropy model. Under the maximum entropy principle, we can combine multiple levels of knowledge about users’ navigation...
This paper proposes a transformation of the Cognitive Walkthrough (CW), a theory-based usability inspection method that has proven useful in designing applications that support us...
Marilyn Hughes Blackmon, Peter G. Polson, Muneo Ki...
In many Web applications, such as blog classification and newsgroup classification, labeled data are in short supply. It often happens that obtaining labeled data in a new domain ...