In only four or five years, the world wide web has changed from a static collection of HTML web pages to a dynamic engine that powers e-commerce, collaborative work, and distribut...
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
During multiparty meetings, participants can use non-verbal modalities such as hand gestures to make reference to the shared environment. Therefore, one hypothesis is that incorpo...
This paper intends to provide some insights of a scientific problem: how likely one’s interests can be inferred from his/her social connections – friends, friends’ friends,...
Microblogs are a tremendous repository of user-generated content about world events. However, for people trying to understand events by querying services like Twitter, a chronolog...
Adam Marcus 0002, Michael S. Bernstein, Osama Bada...