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Local versus Global Strategies in Social Query Expansion
Omar Alonso, Vasileios Kandylas, Serge-Eric Tremblay
Link sharing in social media can be seen as a collaboratively retrieved set of documents for a query or topic expressed by a hashtag. Temporal information plays an important role f…
Scalable Knowledge Graph Construction from Twitter
Omar Alonso, Vasileios Kandylas, Serge-Eric Tremblay
We describe a knowledge graph derived from Twitter data with the goal of discovering relationships between people, links, and topics. The goal is to filter out noise from Twitter a…
A Study on Placement of Social Buttons in Web Pages
Omar Alonso, Vasilis Kandylas
With the explosion of social media in the last few years, web pages nowadays include different social network buttons where users can express if they support or recommend content.…
CrowdSTAR: A Social Task Routing Framework for Online Communities
Besmira Nushi, Omar Alonso, Martin Hentschel +1
The online communities available on the Web have shown to be significantly interactive and capable of collectively solving difficult tasks. Nevertheless, it is still a challenge to…
A Data Management Approach for Dataset Selection Using Human Computation
Alexandros Ntoulas, Omar Alonso, Vasilis Kandylas
As the number of applications that use machine learning algorithms increases, the need for labeled data useful for training such algorithms intensifies. Getting labels typically in…
Adaptive Crowdsourcing Algorithms for the Bandit Survey Problem
Ittai Abraham, Omar Alonso, Vasilis Kandylas +1
Very recently crowdsourcing has become the de facto platform for distributing and collecting human computation for a wide range of tasks and applications such as information retrie…