Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on-line decision making. There are two main areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we pr...
Background: The task of recognizing and identifying species names in biomedical literature has recently been regarded as critical for a number of applications in text and data min...
Tracking new topics, ideas, and "memes" across the Web has been an issue of considerable interest. Recent work has developed methods for tracking topic shifts over long ...
Several domain specific approaches for sports video management have shown the benefits of integrating low- and high- level video contents in supporting more robust retrieval. Howev...
In this paper, we investigate the difference between Wikipedia and Web link structure with respect to their value as indicators of the relevance of a page for a given topic of re...