Hundreds of millions of users each day submit queries to the Web search engine. The user queries are typically very short which makes query understanding a challenging problem. In...
For languages with rich content over the web, business reviews are easily accessible via many known websites, e.g., Yelp.com. For languages with poor content over the web like Arab...
Online popularity has enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits, especially with the advent of the social Web and Web advertising. Yet the processes that drive popu...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato...
The advent of social tagging systems has enabled a new community-based view of the Web in which objects like images, videos, and Web pages are annotated by thousands of users. Und...
A new approach to the recognition of temporal behaviors and activities is presented. The fundamental idea, inspired by work in speech recognition, is to divide the inference probl...