Recent proliferation of computing devices has brought attention to heterogeneous collaborative systems, where key challenges arise from the resource limitations and disparities. S...
Interpreting the relevance of a user-contributed tag with respect to the visual content of an image is an emerging problem in social image retrieval. In the literature this proble...
Most prior work on information extraction has focused on extracting information from text in digital documents. However, often, the most important information being reported in an...
The rapid growth of the Internet over the last decade has been startling. However, efforts to track its growth have often fallen afoul of bad data -- for instance, how much traffi...
Intelligent access to information requires semantic integration of structured databases with unstructured textual resources. While the semantic integration problem has been widely...