To improve the search results for socially-connect users, we propose a ranking framework, Social Network Document Rank (SNDocRank). This framework considers both document contents...
Liang Gou, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Jung-Hyun Kim, Xiaolon...
Relational autocorrelation is ubiquitous in relational domains. This observed correlation between class labels of linked instances in a network (e.g., two friends are more likely ...
Abstract. Several projects have brought rich data semantics to collaborative wikis, but blogging platforms remain primarily limited to text. As blogs comprise a significant portion...
Edward Benson, Adam Marcus 0002, Fabian Howahl, Da...
An analysis of the social video sharing platform YouTube reveals a high amount of community feedback through comments for published videos as well as through meta ratings for thes...
Stefan Siersdorfer, Sergiu Chelaru, Wolfgang Nejdl...
We study the problem of anonymizing user profiles so that user privacy is sufficiently protected while the anonymized profiles are still effective in enabling personalized web sea...
Twitter offers an explicit mechanism to facilitate information diffusion and has emerged as a new medium for communication. Many approaches to find influentials have been proposed...
Changhyun Lee, Haewoon Kwak, Hosung Park, Sue B. M...
In this paper, we present Fastrack, a parameter-free algorithm for dynamic resource provisioning that uses simple statistics to promptly distill information about changes in workl...
Andrew Caniff, Lei Lu, Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherka...
In this paper, we demonstrate a novel landmark photo search and browsing system, Agate, which ranks landmark image search results considering their relevance, diversity and qualit...
Yuheng Ren, Mo Yu, Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Y...
Selecting and presenting content culled from multiple heterogeneous and physically distributed sources is a challenging task. The exponential growth of the web data in modern time...
Realtime web search refers to the retrieval of very fresh content which is in high demand. An effective portal web search engine must support a variety of search needs, including ...