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WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Demographic prediction based on user's browsing behavior
Demographic information plays an important role in personalized web applications. However, it is usually not easy to obtain this kind of personal data such as age and gender. In t...
Jian Hu, Hua-Jun Zeng, Hua Li, Cheng Niu, Zheng Ch...
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
On profiling blogs with representative entries
With an explosive growth of blogs, information seeking in blogosphere becomes more and more challenging. One example task is to find the most relevant topical blogs against a give...
Jinfeng Zhuang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Aixin Sun
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke
CHINZ
2006
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
Digital backpacking in the museum with a SmartCard
This paper reports on the evaluation of a digitallyaugmented exhibition on the history of modern media and our experiences with the methodic approach employed. As a central elemen...
Eva Hornecker, Matthias Stifter