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Fairness and Bias in Truth Discovery Algorithms: An Experimental Analysis
Simone Lazier, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Hadis Anahideh
Machine learning (ML) based approaches are increasingly being used in a number of applications with societal impact. Training ML models often require vast amounts of labeled data,…
"The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts": Optimization in Collaborative Crowdsourcing
Habibur Rahman, Senjuti Basu Roy, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan +2
In this work, we initiate the investigation of optimization opportunities in collaborative crowdsourcing. Many popular applications, such as collaborative document editing, sentenc…
Rank-Based Inference over Web Databases
Md Farhadur Rahman, Weimo Liu, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan +2
In recent years, there has been much research in Ranked Retrieval model in structured databases, especially those in web databases. With this model, a search query returns top-k tu…
Walk, Not Wait: Faster Sampling Over Online Social Networks
Azade Nazi, Zhuojie Zhou, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan +2
In this paper, we introduce a novel, general purpose, technique for faster sampling of nodes over an online social network. Specifically, unlike traditional random walk which wait…
Aggregate Estimation Over Dynamic Hidden Web Databases
Weimo Liu, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Nan Zhang +1
Many databases on the web are "hidden" behind (i.e., accessible only through) their restrictive, form-like, search interfaces. Recent studies have shown that it is possible to esti…