Text-based Information Retrieval (T-IR)
a Workshop organized by Benno Stein. Content Extraction (from Web pages) Filter lines based on the content to tags ratio.</p> a <- ASCII character...
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Utilification
by John Wilkes, Jeffrey Mogul, and Jaap Suermondt This paper elaborates on utilitfication - the transfer of applications to utility computing. Utility comput...
A Utility Theoretic Approach to Determining Optimal Wait Times in Distributed Information Retrieval
This paper presents an approach for providing optimal access to multiple resources combined to a virtual resource through an information retrieval agent. The...
Designing a Better Shopbot
This paper describes optimizing the design of a shopbot (=shopping robot) which considers, the intrinsic value of the product, the disutility from waiting, ...
Why Do Street-Smart People Do Stupid Things Online?
Bratus, Sergey, Masone, Chris and Smith, Sean W. (2008). ''Why Do Street-Smart People Do Stupid Things Online?'', IEEE Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer So...
An evaluation dataset for the toponym resolution task
Leidner, Jochen L. (2006). ''An evaluation dataset for the toponym resolution task'', Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, pages 400-417 This paper moti...
A confidence-based framework for disambiguating geographic terms
Rauch, Erik and Bukatin, Michael and Baker, Kenneth (2003). ''A confidence-based framework for disambiguating geographic terms'', Proceedings of the HLT-NAAC...
Challenges and Resources for Evaluating Geographical IR
Martins, Bruno and Silva, Mário J. and Chaves, Marcirio Silveira (2005). ''Challenges and resources for evaluating geographical IR'', GIR '05: Proceedings of...
Collective Intelligence
by Segaran Toby An excellent guide to programming Web 2.0 applications, with code examples and excellent explanations of the used techniques. Similarity Metr...
Information Diffusion
by Dimitry Zibold The following article summarizes some interesting aspects from Dimitry's research: A Shingle is a contiguous sub-sequence of tokens in a d...
Tracking Website Data-Collection and Privacy Practices with the iWatch Web Crawler
by Carlos Jensen et. al The paper presents a approach for analyzing the privacy practice of Web sites. The iWatch crawler garners information regarding Coo...
Privacy-Enhanced Sharing of Personal Content on The Web
by Mannan, Mohammad and van Oorschot, Paul This article introduces a technique for sharing personal data based on the contact lists of instant messaging (IM)...
Seven Privacy Worries in Ubiquitous Social Computing
Motahari et. al identify seven privacy threads: Inappropriate use by administrators legal obligations: e.g. police inadequate security design invasions (poo...
Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks (The Facebook case)
by Ralph Gross and Alessandro Acquisti (+) The article provides an excellent literature review and trust and intimacy in online networking and on the partici...
Getting Better Search Results
Human-aided filtering can make the difference (by Bob Zeidman). Bob presents in this article how human-aided filtering can improve filtering accuracy. At fir...