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- research-articleApril 2017
Adaptive Online Hyper-Parameters Tuning for Ad Event-Prediction Models
WWW '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web CompanionPages 672–679https://doi.org/10.1145/3041021.3054184Yahoo's native advertising (also known as Gemini native) is one of its fastest growing businesses, reaching a run-rate of several hundred Millions USD in the past year. Driving the Gemini native models that are used to predict both, click probability (...
- ArticleSeptember 2015
Watch-it-next: a contextual TV recommendation system
As consumers of television are presented with a plethora of available programming, improving recommender systems in this domain is becoming increasingly important. Television sets, though, are often shared by multiple users whose tastes may greatly ...
- research-articleMay 2015
Serving Ads to "Yahoo Answers" Occasional Visitors
WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide WebPages 1257–1262https://doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2741997Modern ad serving systems can benefit when allowed to accumulate user information and use it as part of the serving algorithm. However, this often does not coincide with how the web is used. Many domains will see users for only brief interactions, as ...
- short-paperSeptember 2012
Dynamic personalized recommendation of comment-eliciting stories
RecSys '12: Proceedings of the sixth ACM conference on Recommender systemsPages 209–212https://doi.org/10.1145/2365952.2365996Media Websites often solicit users' comments on content items such as videos, news stories, blog posts, etc. Commenting activity increases user engagement with the sites, by both comment writers and readers, and so sites are looking for ways to increase ...
- research-articleApril 2012
Hierarchical composable optimization of web pages
- Ronny Lempel,
- Ronen Barenboim,
- Edward Bortnikov,
- Nadav Golbandi,
- Amit Kagian,
- Liran Katzir,
- Hayim Makabee,
- Scott Roy,
- Oren Somekh
WWW '12 Companion: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide WebPages 53–62https://doi.org/10.1145/2187980.2187987The process of creating modern Web media experiences is challenged by the need to adapt the content and presentation choices to dynamic real-time fluctuations of user interest across multiple audiences. We introduce FAME -- a Framework for Agile Media ...
- research-articleApril 2012
Care to comment?: recommendations for commenting on news stories
WWW '12: Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide WebPages 429–438https://doi.org/10.1145/2187836.2187895Many websites provide commenting facilities for users to express their opinions or sentiments with regards to content items, such as, videos, news stories, blog posts, etc. Previous studies have shown that user comments contain valuable information that ...
- ArticleApril 2012
Modeling transactional queries via templates
ECIR'12: Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information RetrievalPages 13–24https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28997-2_2Search queries have been roughly classified into three categories --- navigational, informational and transactional. The latter group includes queries that aim to perform some Web-mediated task, often by interacting with parameterized Web services. In ...
- ArticleDecember 2006
A humanlike predictor of facial attractiveness
NIPS'06: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing SystemsPages 649–656This work presents a method for estimating human facial attractiveness, based on supervised learning techniques. Numerous facial features that describe facial geometry, color and texture, combined with an average human attractiveness score for each ...