We analyze collective discourse, a collective human behavior in content generation, and show that it exhibits diversity, a property of general collective systems. Using extensive ...
Freshness has been increasingly realized by commercial search engines as an important criteria for measuring the quality of search results. However, most information retrieval met...
Recently, a number of algorithms have been proposed to obtain hierarchical structures — so-called folksonomies — from social tagging data. Work on these algorithms is in part ...
Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier, Christoph Trattner...
Visual search connects physical (offline) objects with (online) digital media. Using objects from the environment, like newspapers, magazines, books and posters, we can retrieve s...
Jamey Graham, Jorge Moraleda, Jonathan J. Hull, Ti...
In the absence of explicit queries, an alternative is to try to infer users' interests from implicit feedback signals, such as clickstreams or eye tracking. The interests, fo...