Networked virtual environments like Second Life enable distant people to meet for leisure as well as work. But users are represented through avatars controlled by keyboards and mo...
Benjamin Petit, Thomas Dupeux, Benoit Bossavit, Jo...
Recent advances in information retrieval over hyperlinked corpora have convincinglydemonstratedthat links carry less noisy information than text. We investigate the feasibility of...
This paper addresses several key issues in the ArnetMiner system, which aims at extracting and mining academic social networks. Specifically, the system focuses on: 1) Extracting ...
Jie Tang, Jing Zhang, Limin Yao, Juanzi Li, Li Zha...
With new technology, people can share information about everyday places they go; the resulting data helps others find and evaluate places. Recent applications like Dodgeball and S...
Pamela J. Ludford, Reid Priedhorsky, Ken Reily, Lo...
One of the main challenges in automatically generating textual weather forecasts is choosing appropriate English words to communicate numeric weather data. A corpus-based analysis...
Ehud Reiter, Somayajulu Sripada, Jim Hunter, Jin Y...