Personal gazetteers record individuals' most important places, such as home, work, grocery store, etc. Using personal gazetteers in location-aware applications offers additio...
Changqing Zhou, Dan Frankowski, Pamela J. Ludford,...
The World Wide Web provides a huge distributed web database. However, information in the web database is free formatted and unorganized. Traditional keyword-based retrieval approa...
H. L. Wang, W. K. Shih, C. N. Hsu, Y. S. Chen, Y. ...
Merchants selling products on the Web often ask their customers to share their opinions and hands-on experiences on products they have purchased. Unfortunately, reading through al...
Many of the possibilities of Web-based education are still unexplored. It seems that novel ways of thinking about both learning and technology are needed to get beyond the limitat...
Miikka Miettinen, Petri Nokelainen, Patrik Flor&ea...
Topic distillation is one of the main information needs when users search the Web. In previous approaches to topic distillation, the single page was treated as the basic searching ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Guang Feng, W...