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 March 11, 2011
| Time: | 1-2 p.m. |
| Description: | Bo Pang, research scientist at Yahoo! Research, discusses tail items on the Internet. In many ecosystems on the Web, the vast majority of the items are of interest to a relatively small number of people. Nonetheless, these tail items in aggregate account for a sizable portion of overall consumption. In this talk, Pang presents a user-centric perspective on the heavy tail phenomenon and discusses the overwhelming evidence that most Web users are a little bit eccentric, consuming niche products at least some of the time.
Pang has a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University. Her primary research interests are natural language processing, information retrieval and Web mining. Her past work includes sentiment analysis, paraphrasing, querylog analysis, bridging structured and unstructured data and computational advertising. |
| Location: | UT Administration Building 1.208 |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | Matthew A Lease | 512-471-3821 |
| Sponsor: | UT Austin School of Information (iSchool) |
| Admission: | Free |
| Parking: | Guadalupe Garage or meter |
| Categories: | Cockrell School Of Engineering, Everyone, Lecture/talk |
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