In many contexts, one is confronted with the problem of extracting information from large amounts of different types soft data (e.g., text) and hard data (from e.g., physics-based...
Thanuka Wickramarathne, Kamal Premaratne, Manohar ...
Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We beli...
Al Schmidt, Jack Li, Landon P. Cox, Romit Roy Chou...
It is important yet hard to identify navigational queries in Web search due to a lack of sufficient information in Web queries, which are typically very short. In this paper we st...
Increasingly, public transportation systems are equipped with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) connected to control centers through wireless networks. Controllers use this infrast...
—Web 2.0 applications, including blogs, wikis and social networking sites, pose challenging privacy issues. Many users are unaware that search engines index personal information ...
Michael Hart, Claude Castille, Rob Johnson, Amanda...