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Exploring Controversy in Twitter
Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis +1
Among the topics discussed on social media, some spark more heated debate than others. For example, experience suggests that major political events, such as a vote for healthcare l…
Absorbing random-walk centrality: Theory and algorithms
Charalampos Mavroforakis, Michael Mathioudakis, Aristides Gionis
We study a new notion of graph centrality based on absorbing random walks. Given a graph and a set of query nodes , we aim to identify the most central…
Quantifying Controversy in Social Media
Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis +1
Which topics spark the most heated debates on social media? Identifying those topics is not only interesting from a societal point of view, but also allows the filtering and aggreg…
DopeLearning: A Computational Approach to Rap Lyrics Generation
Eric Malmi, Pyry Takala, Hannu Toivonen +2
Writing rap lyrics requires both creativity to construct a meaningful, interesting story and lyrical skills to produce complex rhyme patterns, which form the cornerstone of good fl…
Scalable Facility Location for Massive Graphs on Pregel-like Systems
Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis +1
We propose a new scalable algorithm for facility location. Facility location is a classic problem, where the goal is to select a subset of facilities to open, from a set of candida…