Over the last couple of decades, community question‐answering sites (CQAs) have been a
topic of much academic interest. Scholars have often leveraged traditional machine learning …

Two decades ago, a breakthrough in indexing string collections made it possible to
represent them within their compressed space while at the same time offering indexed …

Early event detection and response can significantly reduce the societal impact of floods.
Currently, early warning systems rely on gauges, radar data, models and informal local …

Microblogging sites like Twitter have become important sources of real-time information
during disaster events. A significant amount of valuable situational information is available in …

Background—Nowadays, with the rise of Internet access and mobile devices around the
globe, more people are using social networks for collaboration and receiving real-time …

Microblogging, where millions of users exchange messages to share their opinions on
different trending and non-trending topics, is one of the popular communication media in …

Microblogging sites like Twitter have become important sources of real-time information
during disaster events. A large amount of valuable situational information is posted in these …

Stack Overflow is a popular question answering site that is focused on programming
problems. Despite efforts to prevent asking questions that have already been answered, the …

Indexing highly repetitive texts—such as genomic databases, software repositories and
versioned text collections—has become an important problem since the turn of the …

Convincing people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is a key societal challenge in the
present times. As a first step towards this goal, many prior works have relied on social media …