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Computational Advertising

Our computational advertising research is conducted in close partnership with AdCenter Labs. Our direct access to adCenter resources gives us a unique perspective in this emerging resarch field.


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Trust and Reputation
Learning about people’s reputation to improve trust, the lubricant of online transactions both in games and business transactions. 

 
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Behavioural Targeting
Modelling users based on their browsing behaviour, to improve the relevance of the ads displayed, and to provide better targeting to the advertisers.

     
 

Recommendation Systems
Helping users in their decision-making while interacting with the ever-expanding volume and increasing complexity of information on the Web.

     
 

Machine Learning and Mechanism Design
The keyword auction - the "cash cow" of paid search - is based on a combination of mechanism design and machine learning. We explore extensions and limitations of this combination.


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Primary Contacts: Ralf Herbrich or Thore Graepel

Borchert,
Tom
Graepel,
Thore
Herbrich,
Ralf
Quiñonero
Candela,

Joaquin
Trelford,
Phil
     
Schwaighofer,
Anton
Zoeter,
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“Our partnership with Microsoft AdCenter offers incredibly exciting challenges for machine learning, as well as great opportunities for huge impact.”

Joaquin Quiñonero Candela , Researcher 2007, Microsoft Research Cambridge

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