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Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Ellen M. Voorhees National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA ellen.voorhees@nist.gov Abstract. Information retrieval addresses the problem of nding those documents whose content matches a user's request from among a large collection of documents. Currently, the most successful general purpose retrieval method...

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Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance. These applications place very different demands on Bigtable, both in terms of data size (from URLs to web pages to s...

Facebook: Threats to Privacy Harvey Jones, Jos´ Hiram Soltren e December 14, 2005 Abstract End-users share a wide variety of information on Facebook, but a discussion of the privacy implications of doing so has yet to emerge. We examined how Facebook affects privacy, and found serious flaws in the system. Privacy on Facebook is undermined by three principal factors: users disclose too much, Face...

Spinning Multiple Social Networks for Semantic Web∗ Yutaka Matsuo and Masahiro Hamasaki and Yoshiyuki Nakamura Takuichi Nishimura and Kˆ iti Hasida o AIST, 1-18-13 Sotokanda, Tokyo 101-0021, Japan Hideaki Takeda National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan Junichiro Mori and Danushka Bollegala and Mitsuru Ishizuka University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-865...

A Face(book) in the Crowd: Social Searching vs. Social Browsing Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield Michigan State University 409 Communication Arts and Sciences Building East Lansing MI, 48824-1212 517-355-8372 lampecli@msu.edu, nellison@msu.edu, steinfie@msu.edu ABSTRACT Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we...

Developmental ftychology 1988, Vol. 24, No. 6, 815-823 Copyright 1988 by (he American Psychological Association, Inc. O012-1649/88/SO0.75 Social Networks and Aggressive Behavior: Peer Support or Peer Rejection? Robert B. Cairns, Beverley D. Cairns, Holly J. Neckerman, Scott D. Gest, and Jean-Louis Gariepy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Studied social networks and aggressive behav...

Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection Boanerges Aleman-Meza1, Meenakshi Nagarajan1, Cartic Ramakrishnan1, Li Ding2, Pranam Kolari2, Amit P. Sheth1, I. Budak Arpinar1, Anupam Joshi2, Tim Finin2 1 LSDIS Lab, Dept. of Computer Science. University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-7404 2 (boanerg, bala, cartic, amit, budak)@cs.ug...

Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks (The Facebook case) Pre-proceedings version. ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2005 Ralph Gross Data Privacy Laboratory School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Alessandro Acquisti H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh,...

Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2005 Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up" Susan C. Herring, Inna Kouper, John C. Paolillo, Lois Ann Scheidt, Michael Tyworth, Peter Welsch, Elijah Wright, and Ning Yu School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington {herring,inkouper,paolillo,lscheidt,mtyw orth,pwel...