In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
The goal of a threshold query is to detect all objects whose score exceeds a given threshold. This type of query is used in many settings, such as data mining, event triggering, a...
Guy Sagy, Daniel Keren, Izchak Sharfman, Assaf Sch...
Abstract. Sensor networks are increasingly used across various application domains. Their usage has the advantage of automated, often continuous, monitoring of activities and event...
In the blogosphere, the amount of digital content is expanding and for search engines, new challenges have been imposed. Due to the changing information need, automatic methods are...
Elisabeth Lex, Andreas Juffinger, Michael Granitze...
Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have ...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bru...