Abstract. Extracting information from very large collections of structured, semistructured or even unstructured data can be a considerable challenge when much of the hidden informa...
Social applications on the web let users track and follow the activities of a large number of others regardless of location or affiliation. There is a potential for this transpare...
Laura A. Dabbish, H. Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay, J...
We report on a study of the English edition of Wikipedia in which we used a mixed methods approach to understand how nested organizational structures called WikiProjects support c...
Andrea Forte, Niki Kittur, Vanessa Larco, Haiyi Zh...
Communities are the latest phenomena on the Internet. At the heart of each community lies a social network. In this paper, we show a generalized framework to understand and reason...
Expert finding addresses the problem of retrieving a ranked list of people who are knowledgeable on a given topic. Several models have been proposed to solve this task, but so far...