Query-based web search is an integral part of many people’s daily activities. Most do not realize that their search history can be used to identify them (and their interests). I...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
Capturing the context of a user's query from the previous queries and clicks in the same session may help understand the user's information need. A context-aware approac...
We have used a general purpose data mining tool to determine whether we can find any ‘golden nuggets’ in the web access logs of a large academic web site. Our goal was to use...
Mining subtopics from weblogs and analyzing their spatiotemporal patterns have applications in multiple domains. In this paper, we define the novel problem of mining spatiotempora...
Qiaozhu Mei, Chao Liu 0001, Hang Su, ChengXiang Zh...