Volunteered geographic information such as that available in blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and community contributed photo collections is enabling new applications. This ...
The Web can be naturally modeled as a directed graph, consisting of a set of abstract nodes (the pages) joined by directional edges (the hyperlinks). Hyperlinks encode a considerab...
In this paper, we describe MusicStory, a system that automatically creates videos to accompany music with lyrics. MusicStory uses common search engines, photo-sharing websites, an...
We pose a fundamental question in understanding how to identify and design successful communities: What factors predict whether a community will grow and survive in the long term?...
Events and stories can be characterized by a set of descriptive, collocated keywords. Intuitively, documents describing the same event will contain similar sets of keywords, and t...