Music theme annotations would be really beneficial for supporting retrieval, but are often neglected by users while annotating. Thus, in order to support users in tagging and to f...
General image retrieval is often carried out by a text-based search engine, such as Google Image Search. In this case, natural language queries are used as input to the search eng...
Social tagging provides valuable and crucial information for large-scale web image retrieval. It is ontology-free and easy to obtain; however, irrelevant tags frequently appear, a...
We propose novel spatio-temporal models to estimate clickthrough rates in the context of content recommendation. We track article CTR at a fixed location over time through a dynam...
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...