Large, socially-driven Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and Youtube have seen significant growth in popularity [5, 10]. However, strong demand also exists for socially-driven web s...
Frank Uyeda, Diwaker Gupta, Amin Vahdat, George Va...
A wealth of information is available only in web pages, patents, publications etc. Extracting information from such sources is challenging, both due to the typically complex langu...
The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics...
Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
Previous efforts on event detection from the web have focused primarily on web content and structure data ignoring the rich collection of web log data. In this paper, we propose t...
Qiankun Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wei...