Traditional Naive Bayes Classifier performs miserably on web-scale taxonomies. In this paper, we investigate the reasons behind such bad performance. We discover that the low perf...
A bipartite query-URL graph, where an edge indicates that a document was clicked for a query, is a useful construct for finding groups of related queries and URLs. Here we use thi...
Sequential pattern mining has raised great interest in data mining research field in recent years. However, to our best knowledge, no existing work studies the problem of frequent...
A profiling adversary is an adversary whose goal is to classify a population of users into categories according to messages they exchange. This adversary models the most common pr...
Aleksandra Korolova, Ayman Farahat, Philippe Golle
In the past few years, web usage mining techniques have grown rapidly together with the explosive growth of the web, both in the research and commercial areas. In this work we pre...
Massimiliano Albanese, Antonio Picariello, Carlo S...