Abstract:
A question processing system routes questions among participants in a balanced and sustainable manner. Any participant can act as an inquirer (who poses questions) and an expert (who answers questions). In one illustrative case, the question processing system operates by: receiving a question from an inquirer; determining at least one expert that is appropriate to answer the question; and routing the question to the expert. The receiving, determining, and routing are repeated with respect to other inquirers and other experts to achieve a desired balance of information exchange among the plurality of participants of the electronic question processing system.
Abstract:
The claimed subject matter provides a method for visualizing machine learning accuracy. The method includes receiving a plurality of training instances for the machine learning system. The method also includes receiving a plurality of results for the machine learning system. The plurality of results corresponds to the plurality of training instances. The method further includes providing an interactive representation of the training instances and the results. The interactive representation supports identifying inaccuracies of the machine learning system attributable to the training instances, the features used to obtain a featurized form of the training instance, and/or a model implemented by the machine learning system.
Abstract:
Providing updates to a computing device having a search engine capable of searching a local data store having an index with data related to a plurality of sites located on a wide area network. A first index builder capable of accessing sites on a wide area network is provided. The first index builder retrieves and analyzes data from the sites to create index data related to the sites. The method further includes communicating index data to the locally stored database for incrementally updating the index. A computing device capable of accessing a local data storage device is also provided. The device includes an index stored on the storage device including information related to data stored on the wide area network, a search engine capable of searching the index to retrieve information in response to a query, and a display.
Abstract:
A component presents access to a recommended search provider via a user interface element. In an example embodiment, a device-implemented method for recommending a search provider includes acts of receiving, ascertaining, and modifying. A search query input is received. A recommended search provider is ascertained at least partially responsive to the search query input. A user interface is modified to indicate the recommended search provider.
Abstract:
A system and method to track external devices attempting to connect to a protected network using probabilistic filters. When a connection from a new external device attempts to access the protected network, the memory of a protection system, which is organized as a probabilistic filter, is searched to determine if the IP address already exists in the memory of protection system. If the search locates the IP address, the protection system terminates the connection to the external device. If the search is negative, then protection device begins the authentication process for the external device.
Abstract:
A system and method to track external devices attempting to connect to a protected network using probabilistic filters. When a connection from a new external device attempts to access the protected network, the memory of a protection system, which is organized as a probabilistic filter, is searched to determine if the IP address already exists in the memory of protection system. If the search locates the IP address, the protection system terminates the connection to the external device. If the search is negative, then protection device begins the authentication process for the external device.
Abstract:
A source keyword may be received multiple times and each time, in response, a machine-learning algorithm may be used to identify and rank respective matching-keywords that have been determined to match the source keyword. A portion or unit of content may be generated based on one of the ranked matching-keywords. The content is transmitted via a network to a client device and a user's impression of the content is recorded. The machine-learning algorithm may continue to rank matching-keywords for arbitrary source keywords while the recorded impressions and corresponding matched-keywords, respectively, are used to train the machine-learning algorithm. The training alters how the machine-learning algorithm ranks matching-keywords determined to match the source keyword.
Abstract:
Described is using per-user profile data (e.g., maintained in a browser cookie) as a factor in selecting advertisements to be presented to a user for a current context such as containing query keywords. For example, an advertiser may be willing to bid more if the current context's keywords match the user profile data that indicates a particular area of interest to the user and advertiser. Also described is updating the per-user profile data with the current context if doing so increases the expected utility of the per-user profile data, e.g., increases the predicted amount of revenue from advertisement clicking. Also described is other advertisement personalization based upon the per-user profile data, e.g., the ranking and/or appearance of the advertisements.
Abstract:
Human computation games are provided wherein a player is shown a page, such as a web page. The player is then asked to provide one or more terms that are intended to cause a search engine to return the page in response to performing a query using the terms. The terms provided by the player during game play are then collected, stored, and utilized to improve the performance of the search engine.
Abstract:
Described herein is a system that includes a receiver component that receives an indication that a user has accessed a search engine to initiate a search session. An analyzer component predicts informational interests of the user upon receipt of the indication and outputs an informational item that corresponds to the predicted informational interests of the user, wherein the analyzer component is configured to output the informational item prior to the user issuing a query to the search engine.