WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper shares our experience in designing a web crawler that can download billions of pages using a single-server implementation and models its performance. We show that with ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We consider the problem of ranking refinement, i.e., to improve the accuracy of an existing ranking function with a small set of labeled instances. We are, particularly, intereste...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper presents a general framework for building classifiers that deal with short and sparse text & Web segments by making the most of hidden topics discovered from larges...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Most current banner advertising is sold through negotiation thereby incurring large transaction costs and possibly suboptimal allocations. We propose a new automated system for se...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Hypothesis generation is a crucial initial step for making scientific discoveries. This paper addresses the problem of automatically discovering interesting hypotheses from the we...
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2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Typical web sessions can be hijacked easily by a network eavesdropper in attacks that have come to be designated "sidejacking." The rise of ubiquitous wireless networks,...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper describes a series of user studies on how people use the Web via mobile devices. The data primarily comes from contextual inquiries with 47 participants between 2004 an...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
The combined efforts of human volunteers have recently extracted numerous facts from Wikipedia, storing them as machine-harvestable object-attribute-value triples in Wikipedia inf...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Wikis have proven to be a valuable tool for collaboration and content generation on the web. Simple semantics and ease-of-use make wiki systems well suited for meeting many emergi...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Ontology population is prone to cause inconsistency because the populating process is imprecise or the populated data may conflict with the original data. By assuming that the int...