Automatic recognition of named entities such as people, places, organizations, books, and movies across the entire web presents a number of challenges, both of scale and scope. Da...
Casey Whitelaw, Alexander Kehlenbeck, Nemanja Petr...
In contextual advertising, estimating the number of impressions of an ad is critical in planning and budgeting advertising campaigns. However, producing this forecast, even within...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Marcus Fontoura, Va...
Rival Penalized Competitive Learning (RPCL) and its variants can perform clustering analysis efficiently with the ability of selecting the cluster number automatically. Although t...
Tao Li, Wenjiang Pei, Shao-ping Wang, Yiu-ming Che...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a natural extension of heterogeneous database systems. One of the main tasks in such systems is efficient query processing. Insisting on co...
As many real-world problems involve user preferences, costs, or probabilities, constraint satisfaction has been extended to optimization by generalizing hard constraints to soft co...