It is very common that a user likes to collect many multimedia files of their interests from the web or other sources for his/her daily use, such as in emails, presentations, and t...
Fan Lin, Liu Wenyin, Zheng Chen, HongJiang Zhang, ...
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
This article explores how to develop complex data driven user models that go beyond the bag of words model and topical relevance. We propose to learn from rich user specific info...
The Web is a dynamic, ever changing collection of information. This paper explores changes in Web content by analyzing a crawl of 55,000 Web pages, selected to represent different...
Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Jonatha...
Nowadays the software systems, including web portals, are developed from a priori assumptions about how the system will be used. However, frequently these assumptions hold only par...