Fighting spam on social web sites: A survey of approaches and future challenges

P Heymann, G Koutrika… - IEEE Internet …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, social Web sites have become important components of the Web. With their
success, however, has come a growing influx of spam. If left unchecked, spam threatens to …

Empirical evaluation and new design for fighting evolving twitter spammers

C Yang, R Harkreader, G Gu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To date, as one of the most popular online social networks (OSNs), Twitter is paying its dues
as more and more spammers set their sights on this microblogging site. Twitter spammers …

Music recommendation

O Celma - Music recommendation and discovery: The long tail …, 2010 - Springer
This chapter focuses on the recommendation problem in the music domain. Section 3.1
presents some common use cases in music recommendation. After that, Sect. 3.2, discusses …

Analyzing spammers' social networks for fun and profit: a case study of cyber criminal ecosystem on twitter

C Yang, R Harkreader, J Zhang, S Shin… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we perform an empirical analysis of the cyber criminal ecosystem on Twitter.
Essentially, through analyzing inner social relationships in the criminal account community …

Die free or live hard? empirical evaluation and new design for fighting evolving twitter spammers

C Yang, RC Harkreader, G Gu - … Symposium, RAID 2011, Menlo Park, CA …, 2011 - Springer
Due to the significance and indispensability of detecting and suspending Twitter spammers,
many researchers along with the engineers in Twitter Corporation have devoted themselves …

Bimodal distribution and co-bursting in review spam detection

H Li, G Fei, S Wang, B Liu, W Shao… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Online reviews play a crucial role in hel** consumers evaluate and compare products and
services. This critical importance of reviews also incentivizes fraudsters (or spammers) to …

Can social bookmarking improve web search?

P Heymann, G Koutrika, H Garcia-Molina - Proceedings of the 2008 …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Social bookmarking is a recent phenomenon which has the potential to give us a great deal
of data about pages on the web. One major question is whether that data can be used to …

Social tagging and music information retrieval

P Lamere - Journal of new music research, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Social tags are free text labels that are applied to items such as artists, albums and songs.
Captured in these tags is a great deal of information that is highly relevant to Music …

Tagommenders: connecting users to items through tags

S Sen, J Vig, J Riedl - Proceedings of the 18th international conference …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Tagging has emerged as a powerful mechanism that enables users to find, organize, and
understand online entities. Recommender systems similarly enable users to efficiently …

Detecting spammers and content promoters in online video social networks

F Benevenuto, T Rodrigues, V Almeida… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
A number of online video social networks, out of which YouTube is the most popular,
provides features that allow users to post a video as a response to a discussion topic. These …