Personal gazetteers record individuals' most important places, such as home, work, grocery store, etc. Using personal gazetteers in location-aware applications offers additio...
Changqing Zhou, Dan Frankowski, Pamela J. Ludford,...
Conditional Random Fields (CRFs; Lafferty, McCallum, & Pereira, 2001) provide a flexible and powerful model for learning to assign labels to elements of sequences in such appl...
Thomas G. Dietterich, Adam Ashenfelter, Yaroslav B...
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
Surveillance systems have long been used to monitor industrial processes and are becoming increasingly popular in public health and anti-terrorism applications. Most early detecti...
We consider the problem of mapping data in peer-topeer data-sharing systems. Such systems often rely on the use of mapping tables listing pairs of corresponding values to search f...