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...
In this paper, we present a novel method for the classification of Web sites. This method exploits both structure and content of Web sites in order to discern their functionality....
Abstract. Since current search engines employ link-based ranking algorithms as an important tool to decide a ranking of sites, Web spammers are making a significant effort to man...
In this paper, we study a novel problem Collective Active Learning, in which we aim to select a batch set of "informative" instances from a networking data set to query ...
We describe efficient techniques for construction of large term co-occurrence graphs, and investigate an application to the discovery of numerous fine-grained (specific) topics. A...