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2009
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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
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Meme-tracking and the dynamics of the news cycle
Tracking new topics, ideas, and "memes" across the Web has been an issue of considerable interest. Recent work has developed methods for tracking topic shifts over long ...
Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg
KDD
2009
ACM
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Large human communication networks: patterns and a utility-driven generator
Given a real, and weighted person-to-person network which changes over time, what can we say about the cliques that it contains? Do the incidents of communication, or weights on t...
Nan Du, Christos Faloutsos, Bai Wang, Leman Akoglu
KDD
2009
ACM
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On compressing social networks
Motivated by structural properties of the Web graph that support efficient data structures for in memory adjacency queries, we study the extent to which a large network can be com...
Flavio Chierichetti, Ravi Kumar, Silvio Lattanzi, ...
KDD
2009
ACM
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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...