— The web today is increasingly characterized by social and real-time signals, which we believe represent two frontiers in information retrieval. In this paper, we present Earlyb...
Michael Busch, Krishna Gade, Brian Larson, Patrick...
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users' search queries via an auction. While there has been previous work on the auction process and its game-theor...
Similarity measures for text have historically been an important tool for solving information retrieval problems. In many interesting settings, however, documents are often closel...
The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and the advances in automated information extraction from Web pages enable the construction of large knowledge ba...
We have recently presented CarpeDiem, an algorithm that can be used for speeding up the evaluation of Supervised Sequential Learning (SSL) classifiers. CarpeDiem provides impress...