This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
Contextual information is vital for the robust extraction of semantic information in automated surveillance systems. We have developed a scene independent framework for the detect...
We examine tagging behavior on Flickr, a public photosharing website. We build on previous qualitative research that exposed a taxonomy of tagging motivations, as well as on socia...
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
While peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing is a powerful and cost-effective content distribution model, most paid-for digital-content providers (CPs) use direct download to deliver th...
Alex Sherman, Angelos Stavrou, Jason Nieh, Angelos...