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 ...
Urban sensing, participatory sensing, and user activity recognition can provide rich contextual information for mobile applications such as social networking and location-based se...
Yi Wang, Jialiu Lin, Murali Annavaram, Quinn Jacob...
This paper addresses several key issues in the ArnetMiner system, which aims at extracting and mining academic social networks. Specifically, the system focuses on: 1) Extracting ...
Jie Tang, Jing Zhang, Limin Yao, Juanzi Li, Li Zha...
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...
The problem of multimodal data mining in a multimedia database can be addressed as a structured prediction problem where we learn the mapping from an input to the structured and i...
Zhen Guo, Zhongfei Zhang, Eric P. Xing, Christos F...