Finding relevant experts in a specific field is often crucial for consulting, both in industry and in academia. The aim of this paper is to address the expert-finding task in a...
Several marketing problems involve prediction of customer purchase behavior and forecasting future preferences. We consider predictive modeling of large scale, bi-modal or multimo...
The goal of sentiment prediction is to automatically identify whether a given piece of text expresses positive or negative opinion towards a topic of interest. One can pose sentim...
Many data sets are incomplete. For correct analysis of such data, one can either use algorithms that are designed to handle missing data or use imputation. Imputation has the bene...
This paper describes an approach for incorporating externally specified aggregate ratings information into certain types of collaborative filtering (CF) methods. For a statistic...