In this paper we overview the 2014 Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Challenge (ERD'14),
which took place from March to June 2014 and was summarized in a dedicated …

Scientific research on consciousness is critical to multiple scientific, clinical, and ethical issues.
The growth of the field could also be beneficial to several areas including neurology and …

We present an efficient query evaluation method based on a two level approach: at the first
level, our method iterates in parallel over query term postings and identifies candidate …

To explore face specificity in visual processing, we compared the role of task-associated
strategies and expertise on the N170 event-related potential (ERP) component elicited by …

… Ido Guy, Naama Zwerdling, Inbal Ronen, David Carmel, Erel Uziel … {ido,naamaz,inbal,carmel,erelu}@il.ibm.com …
Ur, S., Uziel, E., Yogev, S., Zwerdling, N., Carmel, D., Guy, I., Har'el, N., & …

The goal of this tutorial is to expose participants to the current research on social recommender
systems (ie, recommender systems for the social web). Participants will become familiar …

This work investigates personalized social search based on the user's social relations --
search results are re-ranked according to their relations with individuals in the user's social …

We study personalized recommendation of social software items, including bookmarked
web-pages, blog entries, and communities. We focus on recommendations that are derived from …

We present an approach for detecting link spam common in blog comments by comparing the
language models used in the blog post, the comment, and pages linked by the comments. …

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman once remarked that engaging the public about economic
theories is hard, partly because everybody feels they are entitled to opine about the economy …