Second Life (SL) is a virtual world where people interact and socialize through virtual avatars. Avatars behave similarly to their human counterparts in real life and naturally de...
Both search engine click-through log and social annotation have been utilized as user feedback for search result re-ranking. However, to our best knowledge, no previous study has ...
Jun Yan, Ning Liu, Elaine Qing Chang, Lei Ji, Zhen...
This paper describes our system that enables members of a social network to collaboratively annotate a shared media collection. The problem is important since online social networ...
In this paper, we present a folksonomy-based approach for implicit user intent extraction during a Web search process. We present a number of result re-ranking techniques based on...
In this paper we introduce the new task of social event extraction from text. We distinguish two broad types of social events depending on whether only one or both parties are awa...