We are experiencing an unprecedented increase of content contributed by users in forums such as blogs, social networking sites and microblogging services. Such abundance of conten...
In this paper we describe integrated multimedia processing for Video Scout, a system that segments and indexes TV programs according to their audio, visual, and transcript informa...
Radu S. Jasinschi, Nevenka Dimitrova, Thomas McGee...
Peripheral information is information that is not central to a person’s current task, but provides the person the opportunity to learn more, to do a better job, or to keep track...
The transition of personal information management (PIM) tools off the desktop to the Web presents an opportunity to augment these tools with capabilities provided by the wealth o...
Max Van Kleek, Brennan Moore, David R. Karger, Pau...
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, e...