During the nineties of the last century, historians and computer scientists created together a
research agenda around the life cycle of historical information. It comprised the tasks of …

Microblogs have become an important source of information for the purpose of marketing,
intelligence, and reputation management. Streams of microblogs are of great value because …

Entity linking deals with identifying entities from a knowledge base in a given piece of text
and has become a fundamental building block for web search engines, enabling numerous …

People have looked for experts since before the advent of computers. With advances in
information retrieval technology and the large-scale availability of digital traces of …

Both Traditional Students and Working Professionals Acquire the Skills to Analyze Social
Problems. Big Data and Social Science: A Practical Guide to Methods and Tools shows how …

The increase of the complexity and advancement in ecological and environmental sciences
encourages scientists across the world to collect data from multiple places, times, and …

Searching for relevant webpages and following hyperlinks to related content is a widely
accepted and effective approach to information seeking on the textual web. Existing work on …

Aggregated search interfaces provide users with an overview of results from various
sources. Two general types of display exist: tabbed, with access to each source in a …

Ecological and environmental sciences have become more advanced and complex,
requiring observational and experimental data from multiple places, times, and thematic …

Television is changing. Increasingly, broadcasts are consumed interactively. This allows
broadcasters to provide consumers with additional background information that they may …