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Measuring Similarity in Large-scale Folksonomies
Giovanni Quattrone, Emilio Ferrara, Pasquale De Meo +1
Social (or folksonomic) tagging has become a very popular way to describe content within Web 2.0 websites. Unlike taxonomies, which overimpose a hierarchical categorisation of cont…
Effective Retrieval of Resources in Folksonomies Using a New Tag Similarity Measure
Giovanni Quattrone, Licia Capra, Pasquale De Meo +2
Social (or folksonomic) tagging has become a very popular way to describe content within Web 2.0 websites. However, as tags are informally defined, continually changing, and ungove…
Web Data Extraction, Applications and Techniques: A Survey
Emilio Ferrara, Pasquale De Meo, Giacomo Fiumara +1
Web Data Extraction is an important problem that has been studied by means of different scientific tools and in a broad range of applications. Many approaches to extracting data fr…
On Facebook, most ties are weak
Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara +1
Pervasive socio-technical networks bring new conceptual and technological challenges to developers and users alike. A central research theme is evaluation of the intensity of relat…
Topological Features of Online Social Networks
Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara
The importance of modeling and analyzing Social Networks is a consequence of the success of Online Social Networks during last years. Several models of networks have been proposed,…
Scientific impact evaluation and the effect of self-citations: mitigating the bias by discounting h-index
Emilio Ferrara, Alfonso E. Romero
In this paper, we propose a measure to assess scientific impact that discounts self-citations and does not require any prior knowledge on the their distribution among publications.…