In this paper, we propose a system called TravelScope that helps users experience virtual tours by presenting information mined from user-generated travelogues and photos. The sys...
Qiang Hao, Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Rong Xiao, Li...
The representation of information collections needs to be optimized for human cognition. While documents often include rich visual components, collections, including personal coll...
Web 2.0 has enabled end users to collaborate through their own developed artifacts, moving on from text (e.g., Wikipedia, Blogs) to images (e.g., Flickr) and movies (e.g., YouTube...
Navid Ahmadi, Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
Social media are constructed from the collective contributions of potentially millions of individuals and present an increasingly common and large scale form of database. As these...
The design and implementation of a search engine for lecture webcasts is described. A searchable text index is created allowing users to locate material within lecture videos foun...
John Adcock, Matthew Cooper, Laurent Denoue, Hamed...