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WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Semi-supervised truth discovery
Accessing online information from various data sources has become a necessary part of our everyday life. Unfortunately such information is not always trustworthy, as different sou...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Web scale NLP: a case study on url word breaking
This paper uses the URL word breaking task as an example to elaborate what we identify as crucialin designingstatistical natural language processing (NLP) algorithmsfor Web scale ...
Kuansan Wang, Christopher Thrasher, Bo-June Paul H...
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Search result diversity for informational queries
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
Michael J. Welch, Junghoo Cho, Christopher Olston
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Pragmatic evaluation of folksonomies
Recently, a number of algorithms have been proposed to obtain hierarchical structures — so-called folksonomies — from social tagging data. Work on these algorithms is in part ...
Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier, Christoph Trattner...
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
The design and usage of tentative events for time-based social coordination in the enterprise
Existing enterprise calendaring systems have suffered from problems like rigidity, lack of transparency, and poor integration with social networks. We present the system design an...
Mikhil Masli, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, Beth Brow...
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Learning to rank with multiple objective functions
We investigate the problem of learning to rank for document retrieval from the perspective of learning with multiple objective functions. We present solutions to two open problems...
Krysta Marie Svore, Maksims Volkovs, Christopher J...
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Context-sensitive query auto-completion
Query auto completion is known to provide poor predictions of the user’s query when her input prefix is very short (e.g., one or two characters). In this paper we show that con...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Naama Kraus
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Limiting the spread of misinformation in social networks
In this work, we study the notion of competing campaigns in a social network. By modeling the spread of influence in the presence of competing campaigns, we provide necessary too...
Ceren Budak, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Here, there, and everywhere: correlated online behaviors can lead to overestimates of the effects of advertising
Measuring the causal effects of online advertising (adfx) on user behavior is important to the health of the WWW publishing industry. In this paper, using three controlled experi...
Randall A. Lewis, Justin M. Rao, David H. Reiley
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Learning to model relatedness for news recommendation
Yuanhua Lv, Taesup Moon, Pranam Kolari, Zhaohui Zh...