More and more users are contributing and sharing more and more contents on the Web via the use of content hosting sites and social media services. These user–generated contents ...
Roget's Thesaurus has gone through many revisions since it was first published 150 years ago. But how do these revisions affect Roget's usefulness for NLP? We examine th...
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...
Nearest neighbor query is one of the most important operations in spatial databases and their application domains, e.g., locationbased services, advanced traveler information syst...
A cartogram is a thematic map that visualizes statistical data about a set of regions like countries, states or provinces. The size of a region in a cartogram corresponds to a par...