Over the last years the means to collect personal data implicitly or explicitly over the Web and by various kinds of sensors and to combine data for profiling individuals has dram...
Understanding query intent is essential to generating appropriate rankings for users. Existing methods have provided customized rankings to answer queries with different intent. W...
The situation in which a choice is made is an important information for recommender systems. Context-aware recommenders take this information into account to make predictions. So ...
Steffen Rendle, Zeno Gantner, Christoph Freudentha...
There exist many interrelated information sources on the Internet that can be categorized into structured (database) and semistructured (documents). A key challenge is to integrat...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...