The language is expressive enough to represent a wide variety of string manipulation tasks that end-users struggle with. We describe an algorithm based on several novel concepts for synthesizing a ...

A comedy writer bought the web domain TrumpKennedyCenter.org and the satirical site he created is drawing attention amid the backlash over the institution’s renaming. By John Yoon and Victor Mather ...

“Robert” and “Bob” refer to the same first name but are textually far apart. Traditional string similarity functions do not allow a flexible way to account for such synonyms, abbreviations and aliases ...

It may sound like something out of a nightmare, but scientists say they weren’t dreaming when they discovered a massive spiderweb that’s home to more than 110,000 arachnids inside a cave in ...

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Google on Thursday is launching a new AI-powered feature called Web Guide for organizing Google Search results. Web Guide is a Search Labs experiment that leverages AI technology to organize the ...

The `srsltid` tracking parameter is showing up on non-product URLs. Google says these URLs aren't indexed, but third-party tools still detect them. You can either disable auto-tagging or use filters ...

Abstract: Publicly posted URLs sometimes contain a wealth of information about the identities and activities of the users who share them. URLs often utilize query strings -- that is, key-value pairs ...

In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...

Abstract: A challenge of data utilization is how to balance data utility and data privacy. For this reason, several privacy preservation models have been proposed. However, they can be effective and ...