Most of recommender systems try to find items that are most relevant to the older choices of a given user. Here we focus on the "surprise me" query: A user may be bored ...
One common predictive modeling challenge occurs in text mining problems is that the training data and the operational (testing) data are drawn from different underlying distributi...
The increasing availability of electronic communication data, such as that arising from e-mail exchange, presents social and information scientists with new possibilities for char...
R. Dean Malmgren, Jake M. Hofman, Luis A. N. Amara...
The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumergenerated product reviews have become a valuable source of inf...
Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeir...
We consider the problem of estimating occurrence rates of rare events for extremely sparse data, using pre-existing hierarchies to perform inference at multiple resolutions. In pa...
Deepak Agarwal, Andrei Z. Broder, Deepayan Chakrab...