—This paper presents a novel hybrid method for content based visual information retrieval (CBIR) that combines shape analysis of objects in image with their automatic indexing by...
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Online reputation management is about monitoring and handling the public image of entities (such as companies) on the Web. An important task in this area is identifying aspects of...
Damiano Spina, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Andre...
Abstract. Periodic pattern mining is the problem that regards temporal regularity. There are many emerging applications in periodic pattern mining, including web usage recommendati...
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Alex Armanasu, Oren Etzioni, Da...