Abstract. The rapid expansion of the Internet and World Wide Web led to growing interest in data and information integration, which should be capable to deal with inconsistent and ...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Collaborative tagging systems are popular tools for organization, sharing and retrieval of web resources. Their success is due to their freedom and simplicity of use. To post a re...
Situational awareness of urban flooding during storm events is important for disaster and emergency management. However, no general purpose tools yet exist for rendering rainfall ...
Abstract. Activity inference based on object use has received considerable recent attention. Such inference requires statistical models that map activities to the objects used in p...