This paper describes the results of an investigation into the differences and similarities between the blogging techniques of UK and US bloggers undertaken in the winter and sprin...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms, used to build webbased recommender systems, are often evaluated in terms of how accurately they predict user ratings. However, current eva...
Neal Lathia, Stephen Hailes, Licia Capra, Xavier A...
Interleaving experiments are an attractive methodology for evaluating retrieval functions through implicit feedback. Designed as a blind and unbiased test for eliciting a preferen...
Yisong Yue, Yue Gao, Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang, T...
Extracting geographical information from various web sources is likely to be important for a variety of applications. One such use for this information is to enable the study of v...