About the Authors

Graham Cormode

Contributed equally to this work with: Graham Cormode, Anirban Dasgupta, Amit Goyal, Chi Hoon Lee

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

G.Cormode@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Anirban Dasgupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Graham Cormode, Anirban Dasgupta, Amit Goyal, Chi Hoon Lee

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India

Amit Goyal

Contributed equally to this work with: Graham Cormode, Anirban Dasgupta, Amit Goyal, Chi Hoon Lee

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Yahoo Research, Sunnyvale CA, United States of America

Chi Hoon Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Graham Cormode, Anirban Dasgupta, Amit Goyal, Chi Hoon Lee

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Yahoo Research, Sunnyvale CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

This work of GC is supported in part by European Research Council grant ERC-2014-CoG 647557, the Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. These funders did not have any role in the development and execution of this work. The work of AD, AG, CHL was carried out while they were employed by Yahoo Research. The funder provided support in the form of salaries for authors AD, AG, CHL, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. Some of the data used in the method evaluation study was provided by Yahoo and cannot be shared further by the authors. Please see the Data Availability Statement for more information about data access. This restriction notwithstanding, these interests do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.