While social interactions are critical to understanding consumer behavior, the relationship between social and commerce networks has not been explored on a large scale. We analyze...
Evaluating user preferences of web search results is crucial for search engine development, deployment, and maintenance. We present a real-world study of modeling the behavior of ...
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais, Rob...
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
Applications that adapt to a particular end user often make inaccurate predictions during the early stages when training data is limited. Although an end user can improve the lear...
Weng-Keen Wong, Ian Oberst, Shubhomoy Das, Travis ...
For most iris capturing scenarios, captured iris images
could easily blur when the user is out of the depth of field
(DOF) of the camera, or when he or she is moving. The
common...
Xinyu Huang (University of Kentucky), Liu Ren (Rob...