For the majority of us, inter-personal communication is an essential part of our daily lives. Instant Messaging, or IM, has been growing in popularity for personal and workrelated...
Most location sharing applications display people's locations on a map. However, people use a rich variety of terms to refer to their locations, such as "home," &qu...
Jialiu Lin, Guang Xiang, Jason I. Hong, Norman M. ...
Web searchers reformulate their queries, as they adapt to search engine behavior, learn more about a topic, or simply correct typing errors. Automatic query rewriting can help user...
Rosie Jones, Kevin Bartz, Pero Subasic, Benjamin R...
an abstract model for information sharing and integration and use it to develop an architecture for building open, component-based, interoperable systems. A geographic information ...
We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries--more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER system...