An important part of our information-gathering behavior has always been to find out what
other people think. With the growing availability and popularity of opinion-rich resources …

Techniques are provided for automatic sampling evaluation. An automatic sampling
evaluation system enables users to evaluate convergence of one or more search processes …

Textual information in the form of digital documents quickly accumulates to create huge
amounts of data. The majority of these documents are unstructured: it is unrestricted text and …

Software developers access bug reports in a project's bug repository to help with a number
of different tasks, including understanding how previous changes have been made and …

We are building an interactive visual text analysis tool that aids users in analyzing large
collections of text. Unlike existing work in visual text analytics, which focuses either on …

Many software artifacts are created, maintained and evolved as part of a software
development project. As software developers work on a project, they interact with existing …

This paper presents algorithms for summarizing microblog posts. In particular, our
algorithms process collections of short posts on specific topics on the well-known site called …

Given the overwhelming number of emails, an effective subject line becomes essential to
better inform the recipient of the email's content. In this paper, we propose and study the task …

Accessing an ever increasing number of emails, possibly on small mobile devices, has
become a major problem for many users. Email summarization is a promising way to solve …

We are building an interactive, visual text analysis tool that aids users in analyzing a large
collection of text. Unlike existing work in text analysis, which focuses either on developing …