We examine the case of over-specialization in recommender systems, which results from returning items that are too similar to those previously rated by the user. We propose Outsid...
Zeinab Abbassi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Laksh...
Since software is developed to run on computers, there is a tendency to focus computer science and software engineering on how best to get software to run on computers. But, engin...
There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern Web languages, user tagging and annotation, and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, ...
In 2008, the systems and networks research communities find themselves victims of their own successes. This white paper reviews some of the evidence that the two areas are under e...
Large amounts of low- to medium-quality English texts are now being produced by machine translation (MT) systems, optical character readers (OCR), and non-native speakers of Engli...