In this paper we introduce the new task of social event extraction from text. We distinguish two broad types of social events depending on whether only one or both parties are awa...
Monitoring applications play an increasingly important role in many domains. They detect events in monitored systems and take actions such as invoke a program or notify an adminis...
The identification and processing of similarities in the data play a key role in multiple application scenarios. Several types of similarity-aware operations have been studied in ...
A qualitative study was conducted to explore how subjects use social networking sites and instant messenger to engage in interpersonal relationships. The results were used to deve...
In this paper we will describe the Berkeley approaches to the GeoCLEF tasks for CLEF 2006. This year we used two separate systems for different tasks. Although of the systems both...