Instant foodie: Predicting expert ratings from grassroots

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1127-1136

  Tan, Chenhao ^a   Chi, Ed H ^b   Huffaker, David ^b   Kossinets, Gueorgi ^b   Smola, Alexander J ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Google Places; Latent variables; Restaurant ratings; Zagat Survey

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER REVIEWS; GOOGLE PLACES; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; LATENT FACTOR MODELS; LATENT VARIABLE; ORDINAL RATINGS; PROBABILISTIC TREATMENTS; USER-GENERATED;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RATING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84889590611     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2505515.2505712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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