The rise of social interactions on the Web requires developing new methods of information organization and discovery. To that end, we propose a generative community-based probabil...
In this paper, we study the problem of learning block classification models to estimate block functions. We distinguish general models, which are learned across multiple sites, an...
As traditional media and information devices integrate with the web, they must suddenly support a vastly larger database of relevant items. Many devices use remote controls with o...
Abstract. This paper investigates the applicability of Informedia shot-based interface features for video retrieval in the hands of novice users, noted in past work as being too re...
Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...