In large social networks, nodes (users, entities) are influenced by others for various reasons. For example, the colleagues have strong influence on one's work, while the fri...
The increasing availability of electronic communication data, such as that arising from e-mail exchange, presents social and information scientists with new possibilities for char...
R. Dean Malmgren, Jake M. Hofman, Luis A. N. Amara...
This paper addresses the repeated acquisition of labels for data items when the labeling is imperfect. We examine the improvement (or lack thereof) in data quality via repeated la...
Victor S. Sheng, Foster J. Provost, Panagiotis G. ...
We consider the problem of estimating occurrence rates of rare events for extremely sparse data, using pre-existing hierarchies to perform inference at multiple resolutions. In pa...
Deepak Agarwal, Andrei Z. Broder, Deepayan Chakrab...
Several algorithms have been proposed to learn to rank entities modeled as feature vectors, based on relevance feedback. However, these algorithms do not model network connections...