One of the fundamental decisions in content networks is how the information about the existing contents is deployed and accessed. In particular, in many content network architectu...
Despite increasing popularity, Location-based Services (LBS) (e.g., searching nearby points-of-interest on map) on mobile handheld devices have been subject to major privacy conce...
Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) offer an elegant way to integrate various aspects of language in one model. Many existing algorithms developed for learning and inference in DBNs ...
A large and growing number of web pages display contextual advertising based on keywords automatically extracted from the text of the page, and this is a substantial source of rev...
Relevance-based language models operate by estimating the probabilities of observing words in documents relevant (or pseudo relevant) to a topic. However, these models assume that ...