Although the Internet provides powerful tools for social interactions, many tasks—for example, information-seeking—are undertaken as solitary activities. Information seekers a...
This paper shows that a simple two-stage approach to handle non-local dependencies in Named Entity Recognition (NER) can outperform existing approaches that handle non-local depen...
This research considers whether interpretive techniques can be used to enhance our understanding of computer-mediated discussions. The case study considered in this research is th...
The widespread availability of broadband connections has led to an increase in the use of Internet broadcasting (webcasting). Most webcasts are archived and accessed numerous time...
Cosmin Munteanu, Ronald Baecker, Gerald Penn, Elai...
Today, the amount of main memory in mid-range servers is pushing practical limits with as much as 192 GB memory in a 24 processor system [21]. Further, with the onset of multi-thr...