This paper presents a stochastic graph based method for recommending or selecting a small subset of blogs that best represents a much larger set. within a certain topic. Each blog...
Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev, Junghoo Cho, Amru...
Hearing people argue opposing sides of an issue can be a useful way to understand the topic; however, these debates or conversations often don't exist. Unfortunately, generat...
Nathan D. Nichols, Lisa M. Gandy, Kristian J. Hamm...
Cryptographic systems and protocols are the core of many Internet security procedures (such as SSL, SSH, IPSEC, DNSSEC, secure mail, etc.). At the heart of all cryptographic funct...
Computing the degree of semantic relatedness of words is a key functionality of many language applications such as search, clustering, and disambiguation. Previous approaches to c...
Kira Radinsky, Eugene Agichtein, Evgeniy Gabrilovi...
The ability to aggregate huge volumes of queries over a large population of users allows search engines to build precise models for a variety of query-assistance features such as ...