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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Web-scale knowledge extraction from semi-structured tables
A wealth of knowledge is encoded in the form of tables on the World Wide Web. We propose a classification algorithm and a rich feature set for automatically recognizing layout tab...
Eric Crestan, Patrick Pantel
NOSSDAV
2010
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Second life: a social network of humans and bots
Second Life (SL) is a virtual world where people interact and socialize through virtual avatars. Avatars behave similarly to their human counterparts in real life and naturally de...
Matteo Varvello, Geoffrey M. Voelker
MM
2009
ACM
168views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 24 days ago
Identifying news videos' ideological perspectives using emphatic patterns of visual concepts
Television news has become the predominant way of understanding the world around us, but individual news broadcasters can frame or mislead an audience’s understanding of politic...
Wei-Hao Lin, Alexander G. Hauptmann
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
161views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 23 days ago
An activity-based sensor networks course for undergraduates with sun spot devices
Wireless sensor networks are revolutionizing the instrumentation of the physical world, across scientific, industrial and military applications. In this paper, we describe our eff...
Damon Tyman, Nirupama Bulusu, Jens Mache
VRST
2009
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Crime scene robot and sensor simulation
Virtual reality has been proposed as a training regime for a large number of tasks from surgery rehearsal (cf. [Robb et al. 1996], to combat simulation (cf. [U. S. Congress, Offi...
Robert Codd-Downey, Michael Jenkin