We present an approach for detecting salient (important) dates in texts in order to automatically build event timelines from a search query (e.g. the name of an event or person, e...
Text mining appliesthe sameanalytical functions of datamining to the domainof textual information, relying on sophisticatedtext analysis techniques that distill information from f...
Microblogs such as Twitter reflect the general public’s reactions to major events. Bursty topics from microblogs reveal what events have attracted the most online attention. Al...
This paper discusses the ranking of a set of objects when a possibly inconsistent set of pairwise preferences is given. We consider the task of ranking objects when pairwise prefe...
We present a method based on statistical properties of local image pixels for focussing attention on regions of text in arbitrary scenes where the text plane is not necessarily fr...