An expert search system assists users with their "expertise need" by suggesting people with relevant expertise to their query. Most systems work by ranking documents in r...
In this paper we propose a new distance function (rank distance) designed to reflect stylistic similarity between texts. To assess the ability of this distance measure to capture ...
Abstract. Estimating influence of a node is an important problem in social network analyses. We address this problem in a particular class of model for opinion propagation in whic...
Abstract— Customized semantic query answering, personalized search, focused crawlers and localized search engines frequently focus on ranking the pages contained within a subgrap...
Collaborative filtering (CF) shares information between users to provide each with recommendations. Previous work suggests using sketching techniques to handle massive data sets i...