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2011
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Filtering microblogging messages for social TV
Social TV was named one of the ten most important emerging technologies in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Manufacturers of set-top boxes and televisions have recently started ...
Ovidiu Dan, Junlan Feng, Brian D. Davison
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Domain-independent entity extraction from web search query logs
Query logs of a Web search engine have been increasingly used as a vital source for data mining. This paper presents a study on largescale domain-independent entity extraction fro...
Alpa Jain, Marco Pennacchiotti
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Ranking in context-aware recommender systems
As context is acknowledged as an important factor that can affect users’ preferences, many researchers have worked on improving the quality of recommender systems by utilizing ...
Minsuk Kahng, Sangkeun Lee, Sang-goo Lee
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Finding our way on the web: exploring the role of waypoints in search interaction
Information needs are rarely satisfied directly on search engine result pages. Searchers usually need to click through to search results (landing pages) and follow search trails b...
Ryen W. White, Adish Singla
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Towards liquid service oriented architectures
The advent of Cloud computing platforms, and the growing pervasiveness of Multicore processor architectures have revealed the inadequateness of traditional programming models base...
Daniele Bonetta, Cesare Pautasso
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2011
ACM
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Investigating topic models for social media user recommendation
This paper presents a user recommendation system that recommends to a user new friends having similar interests. We automatically discover users’ interests using Latent Dirichle...
Marco Pennacchiotti, Siva Gurumurthy
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Exploiting session-like behaviors in tag prediction
In social bookmarking systems, existing methods in tag prediction have shown that the performance of prediction can be significantly improved by modeling users’ preferences. Ho...
Dawei Yin, Liangjie Hong, Brian D. Davison
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Design and implementation of contextual information portals
This paper presents a system for enabling offline web use to satisfy the information needs of disconnected communities. We describe the design, implementation, evaluation, and pil...
Jay Chen, Russell Power, Lakshminarayanan Subraman...
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Measuring the effectiveness of display advertising: a time series approach
We develop an approach for measuring the effectiveness of online display advertising at the campaign level. We present a Kalman filtering approach to deseasonalize and estimate ...
Joel Barajas, Ram Akella, Marius Holtan, Jaimie Kw...
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2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
HyLiEn: a hybrid approach to general list extraction on the web
We consider the problem of automatically extracting general lists from the web. Existing approaches are mostly dependent upon either the underlying HTML markup or the visual struc...
Fabio Fumarola, Tim Weninger, Rick Barber, Donato ...