How to count thumb-ups and thumb-downs: User-rating based ranking of items from an axiomatic perspective

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6931 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 238-249

  Zhang, Dell ^a   Mao, Robert ^b   Li, Haitao ^c   Mao, Joanne ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

^d MNX Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIOMATIC FRAMEWORK; DIRICHLET PRIOR; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; LANGUAGE MODELLING; SCORE FUNCTION; SMOOTHING METHODS; WEB 2.0;

USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 80053019768     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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