Scale is often an issue with understanding and making sense of large social networks. Here we investigate methods for pruning social networks by determining the most relevant rela...
This paper surveys recent technical research on the problems of privacy and security for radio frequency identification (RFID). RFID tags are small, wireless devices that help iden...
Collaborative visual analysis tools can enhance sensemaking by facilitating social interpretation and parallelization of effort. These systems enable distributed exploration and e...
Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Joseph M. Hellerstei...
We demonstrate the effectiveness of multilingual learning for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. The key hypothesis of multilingual learning is that by combining cues from multi...
Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein, ...
We present in this paper methods to improve HMM-based part-of-speech (POS) tagging of Mandarin. We model the emission probability of an unknown word using all the characters in th...