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2007
ACM
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Modeling user behavior in recommender systems based on maximum entropy
We propose a model for user purchase behavior in online stores that provide recommendation services. We model the purchase probability given recommendations for each user based on...
Tomoharu Iwata, Kazumi Saito, Takeshi Yamada
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Brand awareness and the evaluation of search results
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Efficient training on biased minimax probability machine for imbalanced text classification
The Biased Minimax Probability Machine (BMPM) constructs a classifier which deals with the imbalanced learning tasks. In this paper, we propose a Second Order Cone Programming (SO...
Xiang Peng, Irwin King
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Exploring social dynamics in online media sharing
It is now feasible to view media at home as easily as text-based pages were viewed when the World Wide Web (WWW) first emerged. This development has supported media sharing and se...
Martin Halvey, Mark T. Keane
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Simple authentication for the web
Automated email-based password reestablishment (EBPR) is an efficient, cost-effective means to deal with forgotten passwords. In this technique, email providers authenticate users ...
Timothy W. van der Horst, Kent E. Seamons
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Utility analysis for topically biased PageRank
PageRank is known to be an efficient metric for computing general document importance in the Web. While commonly used as a one-size-fits-all measure, the ability to produce topica...
Christian Kohlschütter, Paul-Alexandru Chirit...
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Designing efficient sampling techniques to detect webpage updates
Due to resource constraints, Web archiving systems and search engines usually have difficulties keeping the entire local repository synchronized with the Web. We advance the state...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Learning information diffusion process on the web
Many text documents on the Web are not originally created but forwarded or copied from other source documents. The phenomenon of document forwarding or transmission between variou...
Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
Internet-scale collection of human-reviewed data
Enterprise and web data processing and content aggregation systems often require extensive use of human-reviewed data (e.g. for training and monitoring machine learning-based appl...
Qi Su, Dmitry Pavlov, Jyh-Herng Chow, Wendell C. B...
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
The discoverability of the web
Previous studies have highlighted the high arrival rate of new content on the web. We study the extent to which this new content can be efficiently discovered by a crawler. Our st...
Anirban Dasgupta, Arpita Ghosh, Ravi Kumar, Christ...