Discovering users' specific and implicit geographic intention in web search can greatly help satisfy users' information needs. We build a geo intent analysis system that...
Most location sharing applications display people's locations on a map. However, people use a rich variety of terms to refer to their locations, such as "home," &qu...
Jialiu Lin, Guang Xiang, Jason I. Hong, Norman M. ...
Query suggestion has been an effective approach to help users narrow down to the information they need. However, most of existing studies focused on only popular/head queries. Si...
Inference and decision making with probabilistic user models may be infeasible on portable devices such as cell phones. We highlight the opportunity for storing and using precomput...
Eric Horvitz, Paul Koch, Raman Sarin, Johnson Apac...
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...