This paper presents HYRIWYG (How You Rate Influences What You Get), a reputation system applicable to Internet Recommendation Systems (RS). The novelty lies in the incentive mecha...
Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Martin Ekstrom, Hans...
In this paper we discuss the management of semi-structured data, i.e., data that has irregular or dynamically changing structure. We describe components of the Stanford Tsimmis Pr...
Joachim Hammer, Jason McHugh, Hector Garcia-Molina
To evaluate the diversity of search results, test collections have been developed that identify multiple intents for each query. Intents are the different meanings or facets that...
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
The retrieval of sentences is a core task within Information Retrieval. In this poster we employ a Language Model that incorporates a prior which encodes the importance of sentenc...