Recent work has shown the feasibility and promise of templateindependent Web data extraction. However, existing approaches use decoupled strategies ? attempting to do data record ...
Jun Zhu, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong Wen, Bo Zhang, Wei-Y...
We describe an approach for multi-modal characterization of social media by combining text features (e.g. tags as a prominent example of short, unstructured text labels) with spat...
Long-term search history contains rich information about a user's search preferences. In this paper, we study statistical language modeling based methods to mine contextual i...
The rapid increase in the availability of geospatial data has motivated the effort to seamlessly integrate this information into an information-rich and realistic 3D environment. ...
Cyrus Shahabi, Yao-Yi Chiang, Kelvin Chung, Kai-Ch...
Relevance profiling is a general process for withindocument retrieval. Given a query, a profile of retrieval status values is computed by sliding a fixed sized window across a doc...