We present a method for constructing, maintaining and consulting a database of proper nouns. We describe noun phrases composed of a proper noun and/or a description of a human occ...
We present Asirra (Figure 1), a CAPTCHA that asks users to identify cats out of a set of 12 photographs of both cats and dogs. Asirra is easy for users; user studies indicate it c...
Jeremy Elson, John R. Douceur, Jon Howell, Jared S...
Keyword search for smallest lowest common ancestors (SLCAs) in XML data has recently been proposed as a meaningful way to identify interesting data nodes in XML data where their s...
—The booming industry of location-based services has accumulated a huge collection of users’ location trajectories of driving, cycling, hiking, etc. In this work, we investigat...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically acquiring context models from data. Context and human behavior are represented using a state model, called situation model. This ...
James L. Crowley, Oliver Brdiczka, Patrick Reignie...