This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
This paper focuses on the problem of identifying influential users of micro-blogging services. Twitter, one of the most notable micro-blogging services, employs a social-networkin...
Recent advances in click model have positioned it as an attractive method for representing user preferences in web search and online advertising. Yet, most of the existing works f...
Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Tom Minka, Chenguan...
Building semantic models that account for various kinds of indirect reference has traditionally been a difficult problem. Indirect reference can appear in many guises, such as hea...
In functional programming, monadic characterizations of computational effects are normally understood denotationally: they describe how an effectful program can be systematically ...