Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...
Lexical selection is a significant problem for widecoverage machine translation: depending on the context, a given source language word can often be translated into different targ...
In this paper, we address a unique problem in Chinese language processing and report on our study on extending a Chinese thesaurus with region-specific words, mostly from the fina...
Sensor-enabled smartphones are opening a new frontier in the development of mobile sensing applications. The recognition of human activities and context from sensor-data using cla...
Nicholas D. Lane, Ye Xu, Hong Lu, Shaohan Hu, Tanz...
When implementing persistent objects on a relational database, a major performance issue is prefetching data to minimize the number of roundtrips to the database. This is especial...