Different people or objects may share identical names in the real world, which causes confusion in many applications. It is a nontrivial task to distinguish those objects, especia...
The need to analyze and index large amounts of video information is becoming more important as the way people consume media continues to change. In recent years, the push to attac...
Background: The customary medicinal plant knowledge possessed by the Australian Aboriginal people is a significant resource. Published information on it is scattered throughout th...
This article is motivated by the importance of building web data mashups. Building on the remarkable success of Web 2.0 mashups, and specially Yahoo Pipes, we generalize the idea ...
How can we cull the facts we need from the overwhelming mass of information and misinformation that is the Web? The TextRunner extraction engine represents one approach, in which ...