Recently the world of the web has become more social and more real-time. Facebook and
Twitter are perhaps the exemplars of a new generation of social, real-time web services and …

Existing social networking services recommend friends to users based on their social
graphs, which may not be the most appropriate to reflect a user's preferences on friend …

Collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms have been widely used to build recommender
systems since they have distinguishing capability of sharing collective wisdoms and …

The growth of the blogosphere offers an unprecedented opportunity to study language and
how people use it on a large scale. We present an analysis of over 140 million words of …

It is still an open question where to search for complying a specific information need due to
the large amount and diversity of information available. In this paper, a content analysis of …

We propose a link prediction method for evolving networks. Our method first computes a
number of different node similarity scores (eg Common Neighbor, Preferential Attachment …

(57) ABSTRACT A method for making a recommendation, comprising obtain ing a plurality
of recommendations for a plurality of items from a plurality of members of a Social …

Rapidly develo** academic venues throw a challenge to researchers in identifying the
most appropriate ones that are in-line with their scholarly interests and of high relevance …

Scholarly venue recommendation is an emerging field due to a rapid surge in the number of
scholarly venues concomitant with exponential growth in interdisciplinary research and …

This thesis describes a linguistic investigation of individual differences in online personal
diaries, or'blogs.'There is substantial evidence of gender differences in language (Lakoff …