The MapReduce distributed programming framework has become popular, despite evidence that current implementations are inefficient, requiring far more hardware than a traditional r...
Eaman Jahani, Michael J. Cafarella, Christopher R&...
Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have ...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bru...
In this paper, we use the structural and relational information on the Web to find entity-pages. Specifically, given a Web site and an entity-page (e.g., department and faculty ...
Tim Weninger, Fabio Fumarola, Cindy Xide Lin, Rick...
One of the main problems in developing a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesizer for French lies in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. Automatic converters produce still too many errors in ...
This paper presents a novel concept: a graphical representation of human emotion extracted from text sentences. The major contributions of this paper are the following. First, we p...