This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...
We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
With the wide deployment of smart card automated fare collection (SCAFC) systems, public transit agencies have been benefiting from huge volume of transit data, a kind of sequent...
Rui Chen, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Bipin C. Desai, N&e...
Median-shift is a mode seeking algorithm that relies on
computing the median of local neighborhoods, instead of
the mean. We further combine median-shift with Locality
Sensitive...
The notorious "dimensionality curse" is a well-known phenomenon for any multi-dimensional indexes attempting to scale up to high dimensions. One well known approach to o...
Hui Jin, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, Cui Yu, Aoy...