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KDD
2009
ACM
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Name-ethnicity classification from open sources
The problem of ethnicity identification from names has a variety of important applications, including biomedical research, demographic studies, and marketing. Here we report on th...
Anurag Ambekar, Charles B. Ward, Jahangir Mohammed...
KDD
2009
ACM
166views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Measuring the effects of preprocessing decisions and network forces in dynamic network analysis
Social networks have become a major focus of research in recent years, initially directed towards static networks but increasingly, towards dynamic ones. In this paper, we investi...
Jerry Scripps, Pang-Ning Tan, Abdol-Hossein Esfaha...
KDD
2006
ACM
129views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
15 years 11 months ago
Bias and controversy: beyond the statistical deviation
In this paper, we investigate how deviation in evaluation activities may reveal bias on the part of reviewers and controversy on the part of evaluated objects. We focus on a `data...
Hady Wirawan Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, Ke Wang
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Understanding geocaching practices and motivations
Geocaching is a location-based activity that has been practiced for a number of years. As a sustained and established activity it represents an important opportunity for understan...
Kenton O'Hara
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Assessing attractiveness in online dating profiles
Online dating systems play a prominent role in the social lives of millions of their users, but little research has considered how users perceive one another through their persona...
Andrew T. Fiore, Lindsay Shaw Taylor, G. A. Mendel...