Many Web services operate their own Web crawlers to discover data of interest, despite the fact that largescale, timely crawling is complex, operationally intensive, and expensive...
Jonathan M. Hsieh, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Lev...
This paper studies the problem of discovering and comparing geographical topics from GPS-associated documents. GPSassociated documents become popular with the pervasiveness of loc...
Online service providers are engaged in constant conflict with miscreants who try to siphon a portion of legitimate traffic to make illicit profits. We study the abuse of “tr...
Tyler Moore, Nektarios Leontiadis, Nicolas Christi...
We study the problem of correlating micro-blogging activity with stock-market events, defined as changes in the price and traded volume of stocks. Specifically, we collect messa...
Eduardo J. Ruiz, Vagelis Hristidis, Carlos Castill...
As massive repositories of real-time human commentary, social media platforms have arguably evolved far beyond passive facilitation of online social interactions. Rapid analysis o...