Influence maximization, defined by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (2003), is the problem of finding a small set of seed nodes in a social network that maximizes the spread of influe...
Topic models have been studied extensively in the context of monolingual corpora. Though there are some attempts to mine topical structure from cross-lingual corpora, they require ...
Many applications involve a set of prediction tasks that must be accomplished sequentially through user interaction. If the tasks are interdependent, the order in which they are p...
The Web is a very large social network. It is important and interesting to understand the “ecology” of the Web: the general relations of Web pages to their environment. The un...
A frequently encountered problem in decision making is the following review problem: review a large number of objects and select a small number of the best ones. An example is sel...