In today's fast-paced world, it is increasingly difficult to understand and act promptly upon the content of the many information streams available. Temporal pooling addresse...
Conrad Albrecht-Buehler, Benjamin Watson, David A....
Streaming user-generated content in the form of blogs, microblogs, forums, and multimedia sharing sites, provides a rich source of data from which invaluable information and insig...
Videos from distributed sources (e.g., broadcasts, podcasts, blogs, etc.) have grown exponentially. Topic threading is very useful for organizing such large-volume information sou...
It is crucial for a web crawler to distinguish between ephemeral and persistent content. Ephemeral content (e.g., quote of the day) is usually not worth crawling, because by the t...
The Netherlands had parliamentary elections on November 22, 2006. We built a system which helped voters to make an informed choice among the many participating parties. One of the...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, ...