One major function of social networks (e.g., massive online social networks) is the dissemination of information such as scientific knowledge, news, and rumors. Information can be...
Recent advances in information retrieval over hyperlinked corpora have convincinglydemonstratedthat links carry less noisy information than text. We investigate the feasibility of...
We propose a method for discovering the dependency relationships between the topics of documents shared in social networks using the latent social interactions, attempting to answ...
This paper is about finding explicit and implicit connections between people by mining semantic associations from their email communications. Following from a sociocognitive stance...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...