An increasing number of applications operate on data obtained from the Web. These applications typically maintain local copies of the web data to avoid network latency in data acc...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
For intelligent interfaces attempting to learn a user’s interests, the cost of obtaining labeled training instances is prohibitive because the user must directly label each trai...
For their usage in the semantic web, valid ontologies are required for a given domain. Here we focus on ontologies represented as concept maps (semantic nets). For one and the sam...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...