Over the last few years, blogs (web logs) have gained massive popularity and have become one of the most influential web social media in our times. Every blog post in the Blogosph...
This paper addresses several key issues in extraction and mining of an academic social network: 1) extraction of a researcher social network from the existing Web; 2) integration ...
Previous work on spatio-temporal analysis of news items and other documents has largely focused on broad categorization of small text collections by region or country. A system fo...
This paper presents a successful model for undergraduate research where student participants work on interdisciplinary research projects; in our case, at the frontier between comp...
In recent years, the recognition of Farsi and Arabic handwriting is drawing increasing attention. This paper describes the result of the ICDAR 2009 competition for handwritten Far...