Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Blogs, discussion forums and social networking sites are an excellent source for people’s opinions on a wide range of topics. We examine the application of voting theory to “I...
Alfredo Alba, Varun Bhagwan, Julia Grace, Daniel G...
We are working on a project aimed at building next generation analyst support tools that focus analysts’ attention on the most critical and novel information found within the da...
A long-standing goal of Web research has been to construct a unified Web knowledge base. Information extraction techniques have shown good results on Web inputs, but even most dom...
Michael J. Cafarella, Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Hal...
—Millions of people are using the World Wide Web and are publishing content online. This user generated content contains many information relevant not only to marketing but to co...