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Computable social patterns from sparse sensor data
We present a computational framework to automatically discover high-order temporal social patterns from very noisy and sparse location data. We introduce the concept of social foo...
Dinh Q. Phung, Brett Adams, Svetha Venkatesh
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2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
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2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
An Effective Aggregation Policy for RSS Services
RSS is the XML-based format for syndication of Web contents and users aggregate RSS feeds with RSS feed aggregators. As the usage of RSS service has been diffused, it is crucial to...
Jae Hwi Kim, Sang Ho Lee, Young Geun Han
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2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Resolving Person Names in Web People Search
Disambiguating person names in a set of documents (such as a set of web pages returned in response to a person name) is a key task for the presentation of results and the automatic...
Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke
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2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Keyword extraction for contextual advertisement
As the largest online marketplace, eBay strives to promote its inventory throughout the Web via different types of online advertisement. Contextually relevant links to eBay assets...
Xiaoyuan Wu, Alvaro Bolivar