Recommender Systems, based on collaborative filtering (CF), aim to accurately predict user tastes, by minimising the mean error achieved on hidden test sets of user ratings, afte...
Sponsored search is one of the enabling technologies for today's Web search engines. It corresponds to matching and showing ads related to the user query on the search engine...
In many data mining applications, online labeling feedback is only available for examples which were predicted to belong to the positive class. Such applications include spam filt...
Current prediction models for usability evaluations are based on stochastic distributions derived from series of Bernoulli processes. The underlying assumption of these models is ...
In this paper we present a method for reformulating the Recommender Systems problem in an Information Retrieval one. In our tests we have a dataset of users who give ratings for s...