Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
In this paper, we define the problem of topic-sentiment analysis on Weblogs and propose a novel probabilistic model to capture the mixture of topics and sentiments simultaneously....
Qiaozhu Mei, Xu Ling, Matthew Wondra, Hang Su, Che...
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an important avenue for disease prevention and treatment for the Chinese people and is gaining popularity among others. However, many remain s...
Nevin Lianwen Zhang, Shihong Yuan, Tao Chen, Yi Wa...
Bayesian subspace analysis (BSA) has been successfully applied in data mining and pattern recognition. However, due to the use of probabilistic measure of similarity, it often need...
Although the strongest social relationships feature most prominently in our lives, we also maintain a multitude of much weaker connections: the distant colleagues that we share a ...