How can we cull the facts we need from the overwhelming mass of information and misinformation that is the Web? The TextRunner extraction engine represents one approach, in which ...
The WWW makes learning materials widely accessible and provides an environment where people can learn across time and space. However, the simple read-only information structure on...
Recommender Systems allow people to find the resources they need by making use of the experiences and opinions of their nearest neighbours. Costly annotations by experts are replac...
We have friends we consider very close and acquaintances we barely know. The social sciences use the term tie strength to denote this differential closeness with the people in our...
Abstract. Many surveillance cameras are being installed throughout the environments of our daily lives because they effectively maintain safety and offer security to ordinary peopl...