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SIGKDD
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Learning preferences of new users in recommender systems: an information theoretic approach
Recommender systems are a nice tool to help nd items of interest from an overwhelming number of available items. Collaborative Filtering (CF), the best known technology for recomme...
Al Mamunur Rashid, George Karypis, John Riedl
WEBI
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
From "Dango" to "Japanese Cakes": Query Reformulation Models and Patterns
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
LWA
2008
14 years 11 months ago
An Exploratory Study of User Goals and Strategies in Podcast Search
We report on an exploratory, qualitative user study designed to identify users' goals underlying podcast search, the strategies used to gain access to podcasts, and how curre...
Jana Besser, Katja Hofmann, Martha Larson
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Experience sampling for building predictive user models: a comparative study
Experience sampling has been employed for decades to collect assessments of subjects' intentions, needs, and affective states. In recent years, investigators have employed au...
Ashish Kapoor, Eric Horvitz
MM
2005
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Recognition of hands-free speech and hand pointing action for conversational TV
In this paper, we propose a structure and components of a conversational television set(TV) to which we can ask anything on the broadcasted contents and receive the interesting in...
Yasuo Ariki, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Atsushi Sako