—Information about individuals on publicly available web sites stands as a valuable, yet unorganized, data source. Turning such an enormous data source into a “database” is h...
Learning with hidden variables is a central challenge in probabilistic graphical models that has important implications for many real-life problems. The classical approach is usin...
Adaptive information systems typically exploit knowledge about the user’s interests, preferences, goals etc. to determine what should be presented to the user and how this presen...
In this paper, we will describe ODIE, the On-Demand Information Extraction system. Given a user’s query, the system will produce tables of the salient information about the topi...
This paper describes an attempt to model the method of generating a fact from the opinions of other persons or of institutions as a process which is based on knowledge about these...