: Search is probably the most frequent activity on the Web. Yet it is not effortless, mainly due to heterogeneous information resources. Semantic search is a means to tackle the pr...
An adaptive recommendation service seeks to adapt to its users, providing increasingly personalized recommendations over time. In this paper we introduce the \Fab" adaptive W...
Much progress has recently been made in assisting a user in the search process, be it Web search where the big search engines have now all incorporated more interactive features or...
Taxonomies of the Web typically have hundreds of thousands of categories and skewed category distribution over documents. It is not clear whether existing text classification tech...
Tie-Yan Liu, Yiming Yang, Hao Wan, Qian Zhou, Bin ...
In this paper, we study the problem of learning block classification models to estimate block functions. We distinguish general models, which are learned across multiple sites, an...