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2009
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Building the PolarGrid portal using web 2.0 and OpenSocial
Science requires collaboration. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of coupling current social networking techniques to science gateways to provide a scientific collabor...
Zhenhua Guo, Raminderjeet Singh, Marlon E. Pierce
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 days ago
Tag Clouds: Data Analysis Tool or Social Signaller?
We examine the recent information visualization phenomenon known as tag clouds, which are an interesting combination of data visualization, web design element, and social marker. ...
Marti A. Hearst, Daniela Karin Rosner
CSCW
1996
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using Frequency-of-Mention in Public Conversations for Social Filtering
We report on an investigation of using Usenet newsgroups for social filtering of Web resources. Our main empirical results are: (1) for the period of May '96 to Jul '96,...
William C. Hill, Loren G. Terveen
KDD
2009
ACM
237views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Exploring social tagging graph for web object classification
This paper studies web object classification problem with the novel exploration of social tags. Automatically classifying web objects into manageable semantic categories has long ...
Zhijun Yin, Rui Li, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiawei Han
DILS
2009
Springer
14 years 9 days ago
Site-Wide Wrapper Induction for Life Science Deep Web Databases
We present a novel approach to automatic information extraction from Deep Web Life Science databases using wrapper induction. Traditional wrapper induction techniques focus on lear...
Saqib Mir, Steffen Staab, Isabel Rojas