Abstract Web Data Extraction is an important problem that has been studied by means of
different scientific tools and in a broad range of applications. Many approaches to extracting …

An important dimension of social media discourse is its searchability. A key semiotic
resource supporting this function is the hashtag, a form of social tagging that allows …

The history of linguistics is punctuated by sea changes of culture afforded by new
technologies of communication–first writing, then audio recording and most recently Web 1.0 …

Link recommendation has attracted significant attention from both industry practitioners and
academic researchers. In industry, link recommendation has become a standard and most …

The organization of real networks usually embodies both regularities and irregularities, and,
in principle, the former can be modeled. The extent to which the formation of a network can …

There is significant current interest in the problem of influence maximization: given a
directed social network with influence weights on edges and a number k, find k seed nodes …

Social media have attracted considerable attention because their open-ended nature allows
users to create lightweight semantic scaffolding to organize and share content. To date, the …

We investigate the extent to which social ties between people can be inferred from co-
occurrence in time and space: Given that two people have been in approximately the same …

Recent developments have demonstrated the capacity of restricted Boltzmann machines
(RBM) to be powerful generative models, able to extract useful features from input data or …

Social network analysis has gained significant attention in recent years, largely due to the
success of online social networking and media-sharing sites, and the consequent …