We examine a class of wagering mechanisms designed to elicit truthful predictions from a group of people without requiring any outside subsidy. We propose a number of desirable pr...
Nicolas S. Lambert, John Langford, Jennifer Wortma...
We address the task of separating personal from non-personal blogs, and report on a set of baseline experiments where we compare the performance on a small set of features across ...
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
This paper investigates the agreement of relevance assessments between official TREC judgments and those generated from an interactive IR experiment. Results show that 63% of docu...