The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we study the evolution of the web based on data available from an earlier snapshot of the web and compare the results with those pre...
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In this paper, we develop and evaluate several probabilistic models of user click-through behavior that are appropriate for modeling the click-through rates of items that are pres...
Hila Becker, Christopher Meek, David Maxwell Chick...
Most Twitter search systems generally treat a tweet as a plain text when modeling relevance. However, a series of conventions allows users to tweet in structural ways using combin...
Zhunchen Luo, Miles Osborne, Sasa Petrovic, Ting W...
Annotations are an important part in today’s digital libraries and Web information systems as an instrument for interactive knowledge creation. Annotation-based document retrieva...
Most research in learning for planning has concentrated on efficiency gains. Another important goal is improving the quality of final plans. Learning to improve plan quality has b...