4 papers
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
Jonas Dolezal, Sawood Alam, Mark Graham +1
The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other neg…
Toward Robust URL Extraction for Open Science: A Study of arXiv File Formats and Temporal Trends
Rochana R. Obadage, Lamia Salsabil, Sawood Alam +4
In this work, we study how URL extraction results depend on input format. We compiled a pilot dataset by extracting URLs from 10 arXiv papers and used the same heuristic method to…
Not Here, Go There: Analyzing Redirection Patterns on the Web
Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala +2
URI redirections are integral to web management, supporting structural changes, SEO optimization, and security. However, their complexities affect usability, SEO performance, and d…
Longitudinal Sampling of URLs From the Wayback Machine
Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala +3
We document strategies and lessons learned from sampling the web by collecting 27.3 million URLs with 3.8 billion archived pages spanning 26 years (1996-2021) from the Internet Arc…