Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...
With the rise of community-generated web content, the need for automatic assessment of resource quality has grown, particularly in the realm of educational digital libraries. We d...
Philipp G. Wetzler, Steven Bethard, Kirsten R. But...