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2011
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Parallel boosted regression trees for web search ranking
Gradient Boosted Regression Trees (GBRT) are the current state-of-the-art learning paradigm for machine learned websearch ranking — a domain notorious for very large data sets. ...
Stephen Tyree, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Kunal Agrawal...
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2011
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Finding hierarchy in directed online social networks
Social hierarchy and stratification among humans is a well studied concept in sociology. The popularity of online social networks presents an opportunity to study social hierarch...
Mangesh Gupte, Pravin Shankar, Jing Li, S. Muthukr...
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2011
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Information credibility on twitter
We analyze the information credibility of news propagated through Twitter, a popular microblogging service. Previous research has shown that most of the messages posted on Twitter...
Carlos Castillo, Marcelo Mendoza, Barbara Poblete
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2011
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A better uncle for OWL: nominal schemas for integrating rules and ontologies
We propose a description-logic style extension of OWL 2 with nominal schemas which can be used like“variable nominal classes”within axioms. This feature allows ontology langua...
Markus Krötzsch, Frederick Maier, Adila Krisn...
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2011
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Incentivizing high-quality user-generated content
Arpita Ghosh, Randolph Preston McAfee
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2011
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Towards a theory model for product search
Beibei Li, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
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2011
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Online spelling correction for query completion
Huizhong Duan, Bo-June (Paul) Hsu
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2011
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Towards semantic knowledge propagation from text corpus to web images
In this paper, we study the problem of transfer learning from text to images in the context of network data in which link based bridges are available to transfer the knowledge bet...
Guojun Qi, Charu C. Aggarwal, Thomas Huang
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2011
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Mark my words!: linguistic style accommodation in social media
The psycholinguistic theory of communication accommodation accounts for the general observation that participants in conversations tend to converge to one another’s communicativ...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon, S...
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2011
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we.b: the web of short urls
Short URLs have become ubiquitous. Especially popular within social networking services, short URLs have seen a significant increase in their usage over the past years, mostly du...
Demetres Antoniades, Iasonas Polakis, Georgios Kon...