This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution ...
An important problem in the area of homeland security is to identify abnormal or suspicious entities in large datasets. Although there are methods from data mining and social netwo...
ut spatial environments, be it real or abstract, human or machine. Research issues range from human spatial cognition to mobile robot navigation. Numerous results have been obtaine...
Christian Freksa, Holger Schultheis, Kerstin Schil...
With the rise of community-generated web content, the need for automatic assessment of resource quality has grown, particularly in the realm of educational digital libraries. We d...
Philipp G. Wetzler, Steven Bethard, Kirsten R. But...
Manually querying search engines in order to accumulate a large body of factual information is a tedious, error-prone process of piecemeal search. Search engines retrieve and rank...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, S...