Personal data are often collected and processed in a decentralized fashion, within different
contexts. For instance, with the emergence of distributed applications, several providers are …

In the past decades, recommender systems have attracted much attention in both research
and industry communities. Existing recommendation models mainly learn the underlying …

Most NLP models today treat language as universal, even though socio-and psycholingustic
research shows that the communicated message is influenced by the characteristics of the …

How can a single person understand what's going on in a collection of millions of
documents? This is an increasingly common problem: sifting through an organization's e …

With the rapid growth of web search in recent years the problem of modeling its users has
started to attract more and more attention of the information retrieval community. This has …

Today, many e-commerce websites personalize their content, including Netflix (movie
recommendations), Amazon (product suggestions), and Yelp (business reviews). In many …

Web search is an integral part of our daily lives. Recently, there has been a trend of
personalization in Web search, where different users receive different results for the same …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Scientific literature with rich metadata can be represented as a labeled directed graph. This
graph representation enables a number of scientific tasks such as ad hoc retrieval or named …

The truly world-wide reach of the Web has brought with it a new realisation of the enormous
importance of usability and user interface design. In the last ten years, much has become …