Abstract--The Internet is a large, heterogeneous system operating at very high speeds and consisting of a large number of users. Researchers use a suite of tools and techniques in ...
Personalized search systems have evolved to utilize heterogeneous features including document hyperlinks, category labels in various taxonomies and social tags in addition to free...
Advances in telecommunications and GPS sensors technology have made possible the collection of data like time series of locations, related to the movement of individuals. The anal...
The unarguably fast, and continuous, growth of the volume of indexed (and indexable) documents on the Web poses a great challenge for search engines. This is true regarding not on...
We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries--more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER system...