Social networks readily transmit information, albeit with less than perfect fidelity. We present a largescale measurement of this imperfect information copying mechanism by exami...
Lada A. Adamic, Thomas M. Lento, Eytan Adar, Pauli...
Most real-world recommender services measure their performance based on the top-N results shown to the end users. Thus, advances in top-N recommendation have far-ranging consequen...
Yao Wu, Christopher DuBois, Alice X. Zheng, Martin...
A key challenge of entity set expansion is that multifaceted input seeds can lead to significant incoherence in the result set. In this paper, we present a novel solution to hand...
Consumer spending accounts for a large fraction of economic footprint of modern countries. Increasingly, consumer activity is moving to the web, where digital receipts of online p...
Farshad Kooti, Kristina Lerman, Luca Maria Aiello,...
Sentiment analysis of online user generated content is important for many social media analytics tasks. Researchers have largely relied on textual sentiment analysis to develop sy...
Quanzeng You, Jiebo Luo, Hailin Jin, Jianchao Yang
A dictionary — a set of instances belonging to the same conceptual class — is central to information extraction and is a useful primitive for many applications, including quer...
Real-Time Bidding (RTB) is revolutionising display advertising by facilitating per-impression auctions to buy ad impressions as they are being generated. Being able to use impress...
Weinan Zhang, Yifei Rong, Jun Wang, Tianchi Zhu, X...
In this tutorial we give an overview of click models for web search. We show how the framework of probabilistic graphical models helps to explain user behavior, build new evaluati...
We study the problem of k-anonymization of mail messages in the realistic scenario of auditing mail traffic in a major commercial Web mail service. Mail auditing is necessary in v...
Dotan Di Castro, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Yoelle Maarek,...
Document relevance has been the primary focus in the design, optimization and evaluation of retrieval systems. Traditional test collections are constructed by asking judges the re...