Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...
The BANKS system supports keyword search on databases storing structured/semi-structured data. Answers to keyword queries are ranked, and as in IR systems, the top answers may not...
B. Aditya, Soumen Chakrabarti, Rushi Desai, Arvind...
An increasing number of social networking platforms are giving users the option to endorse entities that they find appealing, such as videos, photos, or even other users. We defin...
Real-world data -- especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks -- tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impo...
This paper presents a context-aware mobile recommender system, codenamed Magitti. Magitti is unique in that it infers user activity from context and patterns of user behavior and,...
Victoria Bellotti, James Bo Begole, Ed Huai-hsin C...