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36 papers
A Critique of Snapshot Isolation
Daniel Gómez Ferro, Maysam Yabandeh
The support for transactions is an essential part of a database management system (DBMS). Without this support, the developers are burdened with ensuring atomic execution of a tran…
Interpreting Complex Regression Models
Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli, Alex Libov, Michael Viderman +1
Interpretation of a machine learning induced models is critical for feature engineering, debugging, and, arguably, compliance. Yet, best of breed machine learning models tend to be…
Deep Character-Level Click-Through Rate Prediction for Sponsored Search
Bora Edizel, Amin Mantrach, Xiao Bai
Predicting the click-through rate of an advertisement is a critical component of online advertising platforms. In sponsored search, the click-through rate estimates the probability…
Sentiment Visualisation Widgets for Exploratory Search
Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Mounia Lalmas, Ricardo Baeza-Yates
This paper proposes the usage of \emph{visualisation widgets} for exploratory search with \emph{sentiment} as a facet. Starting from specific design goals for depiction of ambivale…
Privacy Concerns vs. User Behavior in Community Question Answering
Imrul Kayes, Nicolas Kourtellis, Francesco Bonchi +1
Community-based question answering (CQA) platforms are crowd-sourced services for sharing user expertise on various topics, from mechanical repairs to parenting. While they natural…
Cultures in Community Question Answering
Imrul Kayes, Nicolas Kourtellis, Daniele Quercia +2
CQA services are collaborative platforms where users ask and answer questions. We investigate the influence of national culture on people's online questioning and answering behavio…