Contextual advertising on web pages has become very popular recently and it poses its own set of unique text mining challenges. Often advertisers wish to either target (or avoid) ...
Yi Zhang, Arun C. Surendran, John C. Platt, Mukund...
We address the problem of classification in partially labeled networks (a.k.a. within-network classification) where observed class labels are sparse. Techniques for statistical re...
Brian Gallagher, Hanghang Tong, Tina Eliassi-Rad, ...
Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences routinely rely on quasi-experimental designs to discover knowledge from large databases. Quasi-experimental designs (QEDs) exploi...
David D. Jensen, Andrew S. Fast, Brian J. Taylor, ...
Information-theoretic clustering aims to exploit information theoretic measures as the clustering criteria. A common practice on this topic is so-called INFO-K-means, which perfor...
Privacy-preserving data mining (PPDM) is an emergent research area that addresses the incorporation of privacy preserving concerns to data mining techniques. In this paper we prop...