Most location sharing applications display people's locations on a map. However, people use a rich variety of terms to refer to their locations, such as "home," &qu...
Jialiu Lin, Guang Xiang, Jason I. Hong, Norman M. ...
This paper presents a novel method for extracting information from collections of Web pages across different sites. Our method uses a standard wrapper induction algorithm and explo...
Set expansion refers to expanding a given partial set of objects into a more complete set. A well-known example system that does set expansion using the web is Google Sets. In thi...
The task of identifying the language of text or utterances has a number of applications in natural language processing. Language identification has traditionally been approached w...
We use search engine results to address a particularly difficult cross-domain language processing task, the adaptation of named entity recognition (NER) from news text to web que...