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ESWS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Reducing Ambiguity in Tagging Systems with Folksonomy Search Expansion
Abstract. Search facilities are vital for folksonomy (or social tagging mechanism) based systems. Although these systems allow great malleability and adaptability, they also surfer...
Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Taylor, Edward Thomas
WWW
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Social Network Extraction of Conference Participants
In a ubiquitous computing environment, it is desirable to provide a user with information depending on a user's situation, such as time, location, user behavior, and social c...
Hironori Tomobe, Kôiti Hasida, Mitsuru Ishiz...
ISBI
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A flexible framework for Web interfaces to image databases: supporting user-defined ontologies and links to external databases
Vocabularies to describe research findings are needed to effectively use scientific databases. As understanding of data evolves, scientists need tools for extending the vocabulari...
Josiah Johnston, Arpun Nagaraja, Harry Hochheiser,...
CLEF
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Multimedia Search with Noisy Modalities: Fusion and Multistage Retrieval
Abstract. We report our experiences from participating to the controlled experiment of the ImageCLEF 2010 Wikipedia Retrieval task. We built an experimental search engine which com...
Avi Arampatzis, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, Konsta...
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...