Data about everything is readily available on the web—but often only accessible through elaborate user interactions. For automated decision support, extracting that data is esse...
Andrew Jon Sellers, Tim Furche, Georg Gottlob, Gio...
We introduce an unsupervised query segmentation scheme that uses query logs as the only resource and can effectively capture the structural units in queries. We believe that Web s...
Nikita Mishra, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Niloy Ganguly, S...
While computers and Internet access have growing penetration amongst schools in the developing world, intermittent connectivity and limited bandwidth often prevent them from being...
Jay Chen, David Hutchful, William Thies, Lakshmina...
Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have ...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bru...
Facial attributes such as gender, race, age, hair style, etc., carry rich information for locating designated persons and profiling the communities from image/video collections (...
Yan-Ying Chen, Winston H. Hsu, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao