Mobile devices are treasure boxes of personal information containing user’s context, personal schedule, diary, short messages, photos, and videos. Also, user’s usage informatio...
The information resources on the Web are vast, but much of the Web is based on a browsing paradigm that requires someone to actively seek information. Instead, one would like to h...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
Recommender systems are an emerging technology that helps consumers find interesting products and useful resources. A recommender system makes personalized product suggestions by e...
Most prior work on information extraction has focused on extracting information from text in digital documents. However, often, the most important information being reported in an...