This paper studies the problem of discovering and comparing geographical topics from GPS-associated documents. GPSassociated documents become popular with the pervasiveness of loc...
Abstract-- A decomposition of a binary matrix into two matrices gives a set of basis vectors and their appropriate combination to form the original matrix. Such decomposition solut...
Searching and extracting meaningful information out of highly heterogeneous datasets is a hot topic that received a lot of attention. However, the existing solutions are based on e...
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Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for...