Norms are essential to extend inference: inferences based on norms are far richer than those based on logical implications. In the recent decades, much effort has been devoted to r...
Entities on social systems, such as users on Twitter, and images on Flickr, are at the core of many interesting applications: they can be ranked in search results, recommended to ...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over multip...
With the prosperity of tourism and Web 2.0 technologies, more and more people have willingness to share their travel experiences on the Web (e.g., weblogs, forums, or Web 2.0 comm...
Qiang Hao, Rui Cai, Changhu Wang, Rong Xiao, Jiang...
In this paper, we study the problem of summarizing reasons from blogsphere for social study. We regard weblogs as a source for collecting non-discrete public opinions, where genui...