Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
High-quality, personalized recommendations are a key feature in many online systems. Since these systems often have explicit knowledge of social network structures, the recommenda...
Reid Andersen, Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes...
An individual is asked to assess a real-valued variable y based on certain characteristics x=(x1 ,..., xm ), and on a database consisting of n observations of (x1 ,..., xm , y). A...
Abstract. Most existing market maker mechanisms for prediction markets are designed for events with a finite number of outcomes. All known attempts on designing market makers for f...