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2009
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Learning consensus opinion: mining data from a labeling game
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
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2009
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14 years 5 months ago
Detecting the origin of text segments efficiently
In the origin detection problem an algorithm is given a set S of documents, ordered by creation time, and a query document D. It needs to output for every consecutive sequence of ...
Ossama Abdel Hamid, Behshad Behzadi, Stefan Christ...
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2009
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Identifying vertical search intention of query through social tagging propagation
A pressing task during the unification process is to identify a user's vertical search intention based on the user's query. In this paper, we propose a novel method to p...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Weiguo Fan, Qiang Yang, Zheng C...
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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling semantics and structure of discussion threads
The abundant knowledge in web communities has motivated the research interests in discussion threads. The dynamic nature of discussion threads poses interesting and challenging pr...
Chen Lin, Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Xin-Jing Wang,...
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2009
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14 years 5 months ago
User-centric content freshness metrics for search engines
In order to return relevant search results, a search engine must keep its local repository synchronized to the Web, but it is usually impossible to attain perfect freshness. Hence...
Ali Dasdan, Xinh Huynh
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2009
ACM
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Towards language-independent web genre detection
The term web genre denotes the type of a given web resource, in contrast to the topic of its content. In this research, we focus on recognizing the web genres blog, wiki and forum...
Philipp Scholl, Renato Domínguez Garc&iacut...
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2009
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Collaborative filtering for orkut communities: discovery of user latent behavior
Users of social networking services can connect with each other by forming communities for online interaction. Yet as the number of communities hosted by such websites grows over ...
WenYen Chen, Jon-Chyuan Chu, Junyi Luan, Hongjie B...
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2009
ACM
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Content hole search in community-type content
In community-type content such as blogs and SNSs, we call the user's unawareness of information as a "content hole"and the search for this information as a "co...
Akiyo Nadamoto, Eiji Aramaki, Takeshi Abekawa, Yoh...
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2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Searching for events in the blogosphere
Over the last few years, blogs (web logs) have gained massive popularity and have become one of the most influential web social media in our times. Every blog post in the Blogosph...
Manolis Platakis, Dimitrios Kotsakos, Dimitrios Gu...
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2009
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14 years 5 months ago
The value of socially tagged urls for a search engine
Social bookmarking has emerged as a growing source of human generated content on the web. In essence, bookmarking involves URLs and tags on them. In this paper, we perform a large...
Santanu Kolay, Ali Dasdan