Abstract--Search engines have greatly influenced the way people access information on the Internet as such engines provide the preferred entry point to billions of pages on the Web...
Ao-Jan Su, Y. Charlie Hu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, C...
In this work we present topic diversification, a novel method designed to balance and diversify personalized recommendation lists in order to reflect the user's complete spec...
Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Sean M. McNee, Joseph A. Kons...
We present a principled methodology for filtering news stories by formal measures of information novelty, and show how the techniques can be used to custom-tailor newsfeeds based ...
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Developing countries face significant challenges in network access, making even simple network tasks unpleasant. Many standard techniques—caching and predictive prefetching— ...