Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
With the prosperity of tourism and Web 2.0 technologies, more and more people have willingness to share their travel experiences on the Web (e.g., weblogs, forums, or Web 2.0 comm...
Qiang Hao, Rui Cai, Changhu Wang, Rong Xiao, Jiang...
Recommender systems are an important component of many websites. Two of the most popular approaches are based on matrix factorization (MF) and Markov chains (MC). MF methods learn...
Steffen Rendle, Christoph Freudenthaler, Lars Schm...
Twitter, a popular microblogging service, has received much attention recently. An important characteristic of Twitter is its real-time nature. For example, when an earthquake occ...
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...