As performance gains in automatic speech recognition systems plateau, improvements to existing applications of speech recognition technology seem more likely to come from better u...
In this paper we consider the problem of eCommerce comparison shopping agents (shopbots) that are limited by capacity constraints. In light of the phenomenal increase both in dema...
Influential people have an important role in the process of information diffusion. However, there are several ways to be influential, for example, to be the most popular or the...
Current methods for finding relevant content, especially in media-rich web environments, suggest that metadata is critical for accurate and efficient information retrieval. We des...
We introduce EntityEngine, a system for answering entityrelationship queries over text. Such queries combine SQLlike structures with IR-style keyword constraints and therefore, ca...