Internet users regularly have the need to find biographies and facts of people of interest. Wikipedia has become the first stop for celebrity biographies and facts. However, Wik...
Xiaojiang Liu, Zaiqing Nie, Nenghai Yu, Ji-Rong We...
Given a database with missing or uncertain content, our goal is to correct and fill the database by extracting specific information from a large corpus such as the Web, and to d...
This paper is concerned with the problem of Imbalanced Classification (IC) in web mining, which often arises on the web due to the "Matthew Effect". As web IC applicatio...
We study combinatorial prediction markets where agents bet on the sum of values at any tree node in a hierarchy of events, for example the sum of page views among all the children...
We present a class of web queries whose result is a multi-column relation instead of a collection of unstructured documents as in standard web search. The user specifies the query...