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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 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. ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A differential notion of place for local search
For extracting the characteristics a specific geographic entity, and notably a place, we propose to use dynamic Extreme Tagging Systems in combination with the classic approach of...
Vlad Tanasescu, John Domingue
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
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
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Analysis of geographic queries in a search engine log
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Geographic web usage estimation by monitoring DNS caches
DNS is one of the most actively used distributed databases on earth, accessed by millions of people every day to transparently convert host names into IP addresses and vice versa....
Hüseyin Akcan, Torsten Suel, Hervé Br&...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
LocalSavvy: aggregating local points of view about news issues
The web has become an important medium for news delivery and consumption. Fresh content about a variety of topics, events, and places is constantly being created and published on ...
Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A new 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. There are RSS aggregation policies that help aggregate RSS fe...
Young Geun Han, Sang Ho Lee, Jae Hwi Kim, Yanggon ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Speeding up web service composition with volatile external information
This paper introduces a novel method for composing Web services in the presence of external volatile information. Our approach, which we call the informed-presumptive, is compared...
John Harney, Prashant Doshi
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Efficiently finding web services using a clustering semantic approach
Efficiently finding Web services on the Web is a challenging issue in service-oriented computing. Currently, UDDI is a standard for publishing and discovery of Web services, and U...
Jiangang Ma, Yanchun Zhang, Jing He
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Composite process oriented service discovery in preserving business and timed relation
This paper proposes an approach for solving the problem of composite process oriented service discovery with preserving business and timed relation. Key to our approach is the def...
Yu Dai, Lei Yang, Bin Zhang, Kening Gao