In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
An approach to multi-view face detection based on head pose estimation is presented in this paper. Support Vector Regression is employed to solve the problem of pose estimation. T...
Email-based activity management systems promise to give users better tools for managing increasing volumes of email, by organizing email according to a user’s activities. Curren...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
Networks are a shared resource connecting critical IT infrastructure, and the general practice is to always leave them on. Yet, meaningful energy savings can result from improving...