Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) service allows users to post short tasks (“HITs”) that other users can receive a small amount of money for completing. Common tasks on...
Adam Marcus 0002, Eugene Wu 0002, Samuel Madden, R...
Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...
In a current project, customers are attracted by a video streaming application. A video camera records people passing by, and a monitor shows an alienated version of the setting a...
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
To support users in querying geographic databases we have developed a system that lets people sketch what they are looking for. It closes the gap between user and information syst...