Abstract--Automatic video annotation is a challenging yet important problem for content-based video indexing and retrieval. In most existing works, annotation is formulated as a mu...
A key challenge in recommender system research is how to effectively profile new users, a problem generally known as cold-start recommendation. Recently the idea of progressivel...
Information Extraction (IE) — the problem of extracting structured information from unstructured text — has become the key enabler for many enterprise applications such as sem...
Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, Sajib Dasgupta, Thil...
Evaluating rankers using implicit feedback, such as clicks on documents in a result list, is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional evaluation methods based on explici...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...