—This paper addresses the problem of identifying the top-k information hubs in a social network. Identifying topk information hubs is crucial for many applications such as advert...
Muhammad Usman Ilyas, Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Alex...
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
This paper describes and evaluates privacy-friendly methods for extracting quasi-social networks from browser behavior on user-generated content sites, for the purpose of finding ...
Foster J. Provost, Brian Dalessandro, Rod Hook, Xi...
—Sociological models of human behavior can explain population-level phenomena within social systems; computer modeling can simulate a wide variety of scenarios and allow one to p...
Andrea Apolloni, Karthik Channakeshava, Lisa Durbe...
Although tagging has become increasingly popular in online image and video sharing systems, tags are known to be noisy, ambiguous, incomplete and subjective. These factors can ser...