generally meta-data, so that documents on any specific subject can be transparently retrieved. While quality control can in principle still rely on the traditional methods of peer-...
Traditional ranking mainly focuses on one type of data source, and effective modeling still relies on a sufficiently large number of labeled or supervised examples. However, in m...
Bo Wang, Jie Tang, Wei Fan, Songcan Chen, Zi Yang,...
Abstract. We consider the question of protecting the privacy of customers buying digital goods. More specifically, our goal is to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a ve...
The recent explosion of on-line information in Digital Libraries and on the World Wide Web has given rise to a number of query-based search engines and manually constructed topica...
Mehran Sahami, Salim Yusufali, Michelle Q. Wang Ba...
Text data in the Internet can be partitioned into many databases naturally. Efficient retrieval of desired data can be achieved if we can accurately predict the usefulness of each...
Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Clement T. Yu, Xiaodong ...