MRI: Meaningful Interpretations of Collaborative Ratings

Summary: MRI replaces opaque aggregate ratings with concise, data-cube-based factoids explaining which reviewer segments favor an item. It formalizes meaningful description/difference mining as NP-hard and solves them via randomized hill exploration, validated by user studies and experiments. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10361
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 7.8804914e-05
Overall Rank: 2,993 | 79.47%
DOI: 10.14778/3402707.3402742

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Authors

1. Mahashweta Das (University of Texas)
2. Sihem Amer-Yahia (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
3. Gautam Das (University of Texas)
4. Cong Yu (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@article{das_vldb11,
        title = {{MRI: Meaningful Interpretations of Collaborative Ratings}},
        author = {Das, Mahashweta and Amer-Yahia, Sihem and Das, Gautam and Yu, Cong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1063--1074},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402742},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402742},
        year = {2011}
}

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191	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.00026096009
663	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015174751
2,195	Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases	2016	VLDB	8.9713779e-05
2,759	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	8.1577506e-05
4,959	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	6.4283324e-05
6,425	MapRat: Meaningful Explanation, Interactive Exploration and Geo-Visualization of Collaborative Ratings	2012	VLDB	5.8810029e-05
6,461	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.8718966e-05
7,251	Efficient Sentiment Correlation for Large-scale Demographics	2013	SIGMOD	5.6630343e-05
9,266	Who Tags What? An Analysis Framework	2012	VLDB	5.2960616e-05
11,672	Exploring Ratings in Subjective Databases	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,145	Structured Analytics in Social Media	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
304	Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data for Data Mining Applications	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021917388
553	Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016590619
915	Intelligent Rollups in Multidimensional OLAP Data	2001	VLDB	0.00013243386
2,784	Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing	2007	SIGMOD	8.1271176e-05
3,407	Quotient Cube: How to Summarize the Semantics of a Data Cube	2002	VLDB	7.4391131e-05
3,521	Promotion Analysis in Multi-Dimensional Space	2009	VLDB	7.3501396e-05

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