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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Analysis of topological characteristics of huge online social networking services
Social networking services are a fast-growing business in the Internet. However, it is unknown if online relationships and their growth patterns are the same as in real-life socia...
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Seungyeop Han, Haewoon Kwak, Sue B....
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
KDD
2009
ACM
178views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Constrained optimization for validation-guided conditional random field learning
Conditional random fields(CRFs) are a class of undirected graphical models which have been widely used for classifying and labeling sequence data. The training of CRFs is typicall...
Minmin Chen, Yixin Chen, Michael R. Brent, Aaron E...
KDD
2009
ACM
159views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Mining brain region connectivity for alzheimer's disease study via sparse inverse covariance estimation
Effective diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common type of dementia in elderly patients, is of primary importance in biomedical research. Recent studies have de...
Liang Sun, Rinkal Patel, Jun Liu, Kewei Chen, Tere...
KDD
2008
ACM
206views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Identifying biologically relevant genes via multiple heterogeneous data sources
Selection of genes that are differentially expressed and critical to a particular biological process has been a major challenge in post-array analysis. Recent development in bioin...
Zheng Zhao, Jiangxin Wang, Huan Liu, Jieping Ye, Y...