Internet users regularly have the need to find biographies and facts of people of interest. Wikipedia has become the first stop for celebrity biographies and facts. However, Wik...
Xiaojiang Liu, Zaiqing Nie, Nenghai Yu, Ji-Rong We...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
The rapid growth of the number of videos in YouTube provides enormous potential for users to find content of interest to them. Unfortunately, given the difficulty of searching vid...
Shumeet Baluja, Rohan Seth, D. Sivakumar, Yushi Ji...
Recommender systems are an emerging technology that helps consumers to find interesting products. A recommender system makes personalized product suggestions by extracting knowle...
Discovering frequent patterns from data is a popular exploratory technique in data mining. However, if the data are sensitive (e.g. patient health records, user behavior records) ...
Raghav Bhaskar, Srivatsan Laxman, Adam Smith, Abhr...