Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
Mobile smartphone users frequently need to search for nearby points of interest from a location based service, but in a way that preserves the privacy of the users' locations...
Femi G. Olumofin, Piotr K. Tysowski, Ian Goldberg,...
— The size of data sets being collected and analyzed in the industry for business intelligence is growing rapidly, making traditional warehousing solutions prohibitively expensiv...
Ashish Thusoo, Joydeep Sen Sarma, Namit Jain, Zhen...
Discovering users' specific and implicit geographic intention in web search can greatly help satisfy users' information needs. We build a geo intent analysis system that...
Many algorithms have been proposed to approximate holistic aggregates, such as quantiles and heavy hitters, over data streams. However, little work has been done to explore what t...
Graham Cormode, Theodore Johnson, Flip Korn, S. Mu...