Geographical information retrieval (GIR) can benefit from context information to adapt the results to a user’s current situation and personal preferences. In this respect, seman...
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, e...
Support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used in multimedia retrieval to learn a concept in order to find the best matches. In such a SVM active learning environment, the ...
The rapid progress of information technology has spurred development of various communication support systems. In particular, the importance of informal communication has lately d...
Information overload is a growing threat to the productivity of today’s knowledge workers, who need to keep track of multiple streams of information from various sources. RSS fe...
Lichan Hong, Gregorio Convertino, Bongwon Suh, Ed ...