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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/research/area/id/27/Social-media">
  <title><![CDATA[Social media]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/research/area/id/27/Social-media</link>
  <description><![CDATA["Social media describes the online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives. Social media can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. These sites typically use technologies such as blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and vlogs to allow users to interact." (Wikipedia)

The UMBC ebqiuty group as a number of project that involve one or more aspects of social media, inlcuing online games, weblog spam d...]]></description>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/81/Twitterment">
  <title><![CDATA[Twitterment]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/81/Twitterment</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Twitterment is a search engine for the Twitter microblogging system.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-03-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/54/Velador-Engine">
  <title><![CDATA[Velador Engine]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/54/Velador-Engine</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The Velador Engine is a new MUD engine backed by a relational database.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-01-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/451/The-ICWSM-2009-Spinn3r-Dataset">
  <title><![CDATA[The ICWSM 2009 Spinn3r Dataset]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/451/The-ICWSM-2009-Spinn3r-Dataset</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The dataset, provided by Spinn3r.com, is a set of 44 million blog posts made between August 1st and October 1st, 2008. The post includes the text as syndicated, as well as metadata such as the blog's homepage, timestamps, etc. The data is formatted in XML and is further arranged into tiers approximating to some degree search engine ranking. The total size of the dataset is 142 GB uncompressed, (27 GB compressed). 
This dataset spans a number of big news events (the Olympics; both US presiden...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2009-05-17</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/429/Mining-Social-Media-Communities-and-Content">
  <title><![CDATA[Mining Social Media Communities and Content]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/429/Mining-Social-Media-Communities-and-Content</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Social Media is changing the way people find information, share
knowledge and communicate with each other. The important factor
contributing to the growth of these technologies is the ability to
easily produce “user-generated content”. Blogs, Twitter, Wikipedia,
Flickr and YouTube are just a few examples of Web 2.0 tools that are
drastically changing the Internet landscape today. These platforms
allow users to produce and annotate content and more importantly,
empower them to share...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-12-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/371/The-Information-ecology-of-social-media-and-online-communities">
  <title><![CDATA[The Information ecology of social media and online communities]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/371/The-Information-ecology-of-social-media-and-online-communities</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Social media systems such as weblogs, photo- and link-sharing sites, wikis and on-line forums are currently thought to produce up to one third of new Web content.  One thing that sets these ``Web 2.0'' sites apart from traditional Web pages and resources is that they are intertwined with other forms of networked data.  Their standard hyperlinks are enriched by social networks, comments, trackbacks, advertisements, tags, RDF data and metadata.  We describe recent work on building systems that ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-09-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/406/Detecting-Commmunities-via-Simultaneous-Clustering-of-Graphs-and-Folksonomies">
  <title><![CDATA[Detecting Commmunities via Simultaneous Clustering of Graphs and Folksonomies]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/406/Detecting-Commmunities-via-Simultaneous-Clustering-of-Graphs-and-Folksonomies</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We present a simple technique for detecting communities by utilizing both the link structure and folksonomy (or tag) information that is readily available in most social media systems. A simple way to describe our approach is by defining a community as a set of nodes in a graph that link more frequently to within this set than outside it and they share similar tags. Our technique is based on the Normalized Cut (NCut) algorithm and can be easily and efficiently implemented. We validate our met...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-08-24</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/373/Detecting-Spam-Blogs-An-Adaptive-Online-Approach">
  <title><![CDATA[Detecting Spam Blogs: An Adaptive Online Approach]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/373/Detecting-Spam-Blogs-An-Adaptive-Online-Approach</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Weblogs, or blogs, are an important new way to publish information, engage in discussions, and form communities on the Internet. Blogs are a global phenomenon, and with numbers well over 100 million they form the core of the emerging paradigm of Social Media. While the utility of blogs is unquestionable, a serious problem now afflicts them, that of spam. Spam blogs, or splogs are blogs with auto-generated or plagiarized content with the sole purpose of hosting profitable contextual ads and/or...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-12-10</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/374/Web-2-0-Mining-Analyzing-Social-Media">
  <title><![CDATA[Web 2.0 Mining: Analyzing Social Media]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/374/Web-2-0-Mining-Analyzing-Social-Media</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Social media systems such as blogs, photo and link
sharing sites, wikis and on-line forums are estimated
to produce up to one third of new Web content. One
thing that sets these ”Web 2.0” sites apart from traditional
Web pages and resources is that they are intertwined
with other forms of networked data. Their standard
hyperlinks are enriched by social networks, comments,
trackbacks, advertisements, tags, RDF data and
metadata. We describe recent work on building systems
that ana...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-10-10</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/367/Why-We-Twitter-Understanding-Microblogging-Usage-and-Communities">
  <title><![CDATA[Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/367/Why-We-Twitter-Understanding-Microblogging-Usage-and-Communities</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Microblogging is a new form of communication in which
users can describe their current status in short posts distributed
by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the
Web. Twitter, a popular microblogging tool has seen a lot
of growth since it launched in October, 2006. In this paper,
we present our observations of the microblogging phenomena
by studying the topological and geographical properties
of Twitter’s social network. We find that people use microblogging
to talk about th...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-08-12</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/365/Adding-Semantics-to-Social-Websites-for-Citizen-Science">
  <title><![CDATA[Adding Semantics to Social Websites for Citizen Science]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/365/Adding-Semantics-to-Social-Websites-for-Citizen-Science</link>
  <description><![CDATA[While efforts are underway to represent existing ecological
databases semantically, so that they may be intelligently queried and integrated by agents, less attention has been paid to 1) rapidly changing datastreams, and 2) unstructured data from amateur observers. We describe the development of two tools that interact with popular social websites as a means to generate and take advantage of semantic web content for citizen science. Splickr, a website, interacts with the Flickr and Yahoo map...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-06-05</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/370/On-Modeling-Trust-in-Social-Media-using-Link-Polarity">
  <title><![CDATA[On Modeling Trust in Social Media using Link Polarity]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/370/On-Modeling-Trust-in-Social-Media-using-Link-Polarity</link>
  <description><![CDATA[There is a growing interest in exploring the role of social networks to understand how communities and individuals spread influence. In a densely connected online world, social media and networks have a great potential in influencing our thoughts and actions. We describe techniques to model trust in social media and present experimental results on finding “like minded” blogs based on blog-to-blog link sentiment for a particular domain. Using simple sentiment detection techniques, we ident...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-05-14</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/342/Towards-Spam-Detection-at-Ping-Servers">
  <title><![CDATA[Towards Spam Detection at Ping Servers]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/342/Towards-Spam-Detection-at-Ping-Servers</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Spam blogs, or splogs, are blogs featuring plagiarized or auto-generated content. They create link farms to promote affiliates, and are motivated by the profitability of hosting ads. Splogs infiltrate the blogosphere at ping servers, systems that aggregate blog update pings. Over the past year, our work has focused on detecting and eliminating splogs. As techniques used by spammers have evolved, we have learned how splog signatures are tied to tools that create them, that they are beginning t...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-03-25</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/326/BlogVox-Separating-Blog-Wheat-from-Blog-Chaff">
  <title><![CDATA[BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/326/BlogVox-Separating-Blog-Wheat-from-Blog-Chaff</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Blog posts are often informally written, poorly structured, rife with
spelling and grammatical errors, and feature non-traditional
content. These characteristics make them difficult to process with
standard language analysis tools.  Performing linguistic analysis on
blogs is plagued by two additional problems: (i) the presence of spam
blogs and spam comments and (ii) extraneous non-content including
blog-rolls, link-rolls, advertisements and sidebars. We describe
techniques designed to...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-01-07</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/318/Blog-Track-Open-Task-Spam-Blog-Classification">
  <title><![CDATA[Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/318/Blog-Track-Open-Task-Spam-Blog-Classification</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Spam blogs or Splogs are blogs created for the sole purpose of hosting
ads, promoting affiliate sites and getting new content indexed, with
auto-generated or plagiarized content from other sources. Spammers
equipped with readily available splog creation software inundate the
blogosphere both at ping servers, and at systems that index and
analyze blogs. Our own studies estimate these numbers to be around 75%
at ping servers and 20% at popular blog search engines. In this open
submission...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-11-14</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/299/Characterizing-the-Splogosphere">
  <title><![CDATA[Characterizing the Splogosphere]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/299/Characterizing-the-Splogosphere</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Weblogs or blogs collectively constitute the Blogosphere, forming
an influential and interesting subset on theWeb. As with
most Internet-enabled applications, the ease of content creation
and distribution makes the blogosphere spam prone.
Spam blogs or splogs are blogs hosting spam posts, created
using machine generated or hijacked content for the sole purpose
of hosting ads or raising the PageRank of target sites.
These splogs make up the splogosphere, and are now inundating
blog sea...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-05-23</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/274/Constraining-Information-Flow-in-Social-Networks-with-Privacy-Policies">
  <title><![CDATA[Constraining Information Flow in Social Networks with Privacy Policies]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/274/Constraining-Information-Flow-in-Social-Networks-with-Privacy-Policies</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Online social networking systems are a phenomenon that has grown exponentially over the past few years. These systems provide platforms for people to easily share information, especially about themselves and about their interests. With the recent emergence of geolocation technologies, social networking can allow users to interact relative to location and time. Most systems began with few or no privacy controls and have gradually been adding and enhancing them to meet the demands of their user...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2009-08-10</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/225/Finding-knowledge-data-and-answers-on-the-Semantic-Web">
  <title><![CDATA[Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/225/Finding-knowledge-data-and-answers-on-the-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate opinions. The W3C's Semantic Web effort aims to make such knowledge more accessible to computer programs by publishing it in machine understandable form. As the volume of Semantic Web data grows, software agents will need their own search engines to help them find the relevant and trustworthy knowledge they need to perfo...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-05-09</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/234/ICWSM-2008-Poster">
  <title><![CDATA[ICWSM 2008 Poster]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/234/ICWSM-2008-Poster</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media will be helpd  March 31 - April 2 2008 in  Seattle.  

See http://www.icwsm.org/2008/]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-07-22</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/249/Planet-Social-Media-Research-Pamphlet">
  <title><![CDATA[Planet Social Media Research Pamphlet]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/249/Planet-Social-Media-Research-Pamphlet</link>
  <dc:date>2008-08-23</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/241/spam-in-blogs-and-social-media">
  <title><![CDATA[spam in blogs and social media]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/241/spam-in-blogs-and-social-media</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Spam on the Internet dates back over a decade, with its earliest known appearance as an email about the infamous MAKE.MONEY.FAST. campaign. Spam has co-evolved with Internet applications and is now quite common on the World-Wide Web.

As social media systems such as blogs, wikis and bookmark sharing sites have emerged, spammers have quickly developed techniques to infect them as well. The very characteristics underlying the Web, be it version 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0, also enable new varieties of sp...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-03-25</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/279/Trust-Influence-and-Bias-in-Social-Media">
  <title><![CDATA[Trust, Influence andBias in Social Media]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/279/Trust-Influence-and-Bias-in-Social-Media</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This presentation gives an overview of recent research at UMBC on modeling influence, trust and bias in soial media content.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2009-06-11</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/244/Wikipedia-as-an-ontology">
  <title><![CDATA[Wikipedia as an ontology]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/244/Wikipedia-as-an-ontology</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Identifying the topics and concepts associated with a document
or collection of documents is a common task for many
applications. It can help in the annotation and categorization
of documents in a corpus. Knowing the topics of documents a
user has selected and viewed on the Web or from a collection
can be used to model the user's current topical interests for
improving search results, business intelligence or selecting
appropriate advertisements.

We are exploring the idea of using W...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-10-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/311/Understanding-RSM-Relief-Social-Media">
  <title><![CDATA[Understanding RSM: Relief Social Media]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/311/Understanding-RSM-Relief-Social-Media</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Anand Karandikar and Will Murnane will talk about a project they areworking on.  

This talk describes a new ONR-sponsored two-year research project
'Understanding RSM: Relief Social Media' that we are beginning in
conjunction with colleagues at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology
Laboratory.  The RSM project is aimed at helping to detect and monitor
information about crises and associated relief efforts from online
sources including both social media and main stream media.

Ther...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2009-09-15</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/305/Constraining-Information-Flow-in-Social-Networks-with-Privacy-Policies">
  <title><![CDATA[Constraining Information Flow in Social Networks with Privacy Policies]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/305/Constraining-Information-Flow-in-Social-Networks-with-Privacy-Policies</link>
  <description><![CDATA[MS Thesis Defense
Online social networking systems are a phenomenon that has grown exponentially over the past few years. These systems provide platforms for people to easily share information, especially about themselves and about their interests.  With the recent emergence of geolocation technologies, social networking can allow users to interact relative to location and time. Most systems began with few or no privacy controls and have gradually been adding and enhancing them to meet the ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2009-08-10</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/265/Mining-Social-Media-Communities-and-Content">
  <title><![CDATA[Mining Social Media Communities and Content]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/265/Mining-Social-Media-Communities-and-Content</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Ph.D. Dissertation Defense


Social Media is changing the way we find information, share knowledge and
communicate with each other. The important factor contributing to the growth
of these technologies is the ability to easily produce "user-generated
content". Blogs, Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube are just a few
examples of Web 2.0 tools that are drastically changing the Internet landscape
today. These platforms allow users to produce, annotate and share information
with thei...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-10-16</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/251/Communities-in-Social-Media-Reflections-on-Semantics-Intention-and-Influence-">
  <title><![CDATA[Communities in Social Media: Reflections on Semantics, Intention and Influence]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/251/Communities-in-Social-Media-Reflections-on-Semantics-Intention-and-Influence-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Communities are central to online social media systems and detecting
their structure and membership is critical for many applications. A
community in real world is represented in a graph as a set of nodes
that are more closely related to one another than the rest of the
network. In social media, a community could be a set of blogs that are
topically related, a group of friends connected via Live Spaces or
even a set of users who share similar tags in their social bookmarks.
Graph struc...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-08-28</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/247/Communities-in-Social-Media-An-Eyepiece-into-Context-User-Intention-and-Influence">
  <title><![CDATA[Communities in Social Media: An Eyepiece into Context, User Intention and Influence]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/247/Communities-in-Social-Media-An-Eyepiece-into-Context-User-Intention-and-Influence</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Communities are central to online social media systems and detecting their structure and membership is critical for many applications. In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent research on both identifying communities and analyzing their content. We leverage the special properties of Social Media data to analyze the communities in an attempt to understand user intentions, context and influence.

 Community detection techniques can be computationally expensive. An approach to reducing ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-06-30</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/245/A-Different-Kind-of-Social-Physics-Online-Communities-and-the-Revolution-in-the-Architecture-of-Our-Social-Spaces">
  <title><![CDATA[A Different Kind of Social Physics: Online Communities and the Revolution in the Architecture of Our Social Spaces]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/245/A-Different-Kind-of-Social-Physics-Online-Communities-and-the-Revolution-in-the-Architecture-of-Our-Social-Spaces</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Everyday, tens of millions of people chat, text, email, poke, twitter, IM and facebook (and, yes, that is a verb). They do what people have always done: they make friends and mark enemies, they assert and seek status, they look for affirmation and for connection, they check out the competition and, above all, they seek the comfort of community. Contrary to earlier predictions, people do not undertake revolutionary, unheard of acts just because the medium is new. In fact, the rise of social co...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-05-28</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/222/Gnizr-an-open-source-social-bookmarking-application">
  <title><![CDATA[Gnizr: an open source social bookmarking application]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/222/Gnizr-an-open-source-social-bookmarking-application</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Gnizr is an open source application for social bookmarking and web mashup. It is easy to use gnizr to create a personalized del.icio.us-like portal for a group of friends and colleagues to store, classify, share information, and mash-it-up with information about location.

For more information, see http://gnizr.googlecode.com.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-11-05</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/221/Wikipedia-as-an-ontology-for-describing-documents">
  <title><![CDATA[Wikipedia as an ontology for describing documents]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/221/Wikipedia-as-an-ontology-for-describing-documents</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Identifying the topics and concepts associated with a
document or collection of documents is a common task for
many applications.  It can help in the annotation and
categorization of documents in a corpus. Knowing the topics
of documents a user has selected and viewed on the Web or
from a collection can be used to model the user's current
topical interests for improving search results, business
intelligence or selecting appropriate advertisements.

We are exploring the idea of using ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-10-29</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/212/Detecting-Spam-Blogs-An-Adaptive-Online-Approach-">
  <title><![CDATA[Detecting Spam Blogs: An Adaptive Online Approach]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/212/Detecting-Spam-Blogs-An-Adaptive-Online-Approach-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Weblogs, or blogs, are an important new way to publish information, engage
in discussions, and form communities on the Internet. Blogs are a global
phenomenon, and with numbers well over 100 million they form the core of
the emerging paradigm of Social Media. While the utility of blogs is
unquestionable, a serious problem now afflicts them, that of spam. Spam
blogs, or splogs are blogs with auto-generated or plagiarized content
with the sole purpose of hosting profitable contextual ads ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-09-25</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/213/Detecting-spam-blogs-beta-">
  <title><![CDATA[Detecting spam blogs (beta)]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/213/Detecting-spam-blogs-beta-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In our regular weekly Ebiquity meeting, Pranam Kolari will give us a preview of his dissertation defense presentation.  He will greatly appreciate feedback on this pre-release beta version, as long as it doesn't involve suggestions that he do an additional six months of research to confirm and strengthen his experimental results.

See  his defense announcement for the abstract.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-09-24</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/203/Modeling-Trust-and-Influence-on-Blogosphere-using-Link-Polarity">
  <title><![CDATA[Modeling Trust and Influence on Blogosphere using Link Polarity]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/203/Modeling-Trust-and-Influence-on-Blogosphere-using-Link-Polarity</link>
  <description><![CDATA[There is a growing interest in exploring the role of social networks for understanding
how communities and individuals spread influence. In a densely connected world where
much of our communication happens online, social media and networks have a great potential in influencing our thoughts and actions. The key contribution of our work is generation of a fully-connected polar social network graph from the sparsely connected social network graph in the context of blogs, where the vertex repre...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-04-26</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/191/Modeling-Trust-and-Influence-in-the-Blogosphere-Using-Link-Polarity">
  <title><![CDATA[Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/191/Modeling-Trust-and-Influence-in-the-Blogosphere-Using-Link-Polarity</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The role of social networks has been well explored in
understanding how communities and individuals spread influence.
In a densely connected world where much of our communication
happens online, social media and networks have a great potential
in influencing our thoughts and actions. We describe techniques
to find "like minded" blogs based on blog-to-blog link sentiment
for a particular domain. Using simple sentiment detection
techniques, we identify the polarity (positive, negative or...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-02-13</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/187/Tracking-influence-and-opinions-in-social-media">
  <title><![CDATA[Tracking influence and opinions in social media]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/187/Tracking-influence-and-opinions-in-social-media</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Recently, social media such as forums, wikis and blogs, in
particular, are playing a notable role in influencing the
buying patterns of consumers.  Often a person looks for
opinions, user experiences and reviews on such sources
before purchasing a product.  Detecting influential nodes,
opinion leaders and understanding their role in how people
perceive and adopt a product or service provides a powerful
tool for marketing, advertising and business
intelligence. This requires new algori...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-11-13</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/185/The-Science-of-Interaction-A-New-NSF-Initiative">
  <title><![CDATA[The Science of Interaction: A New NSF Initiative]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/185/The-Science-of-Interaction-A-New-NSF-Initiative</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The Science of Interaction initiative aims to establish, explore and
exploit the role of communications and computing in all other sciences
and engineering.  It is envisioned as a basic, trans-disciplinary
field, comprised of elements of mathematical, physical, social,
biological, earth and computing sciences, with applications in every
engineering discipline. As we continue to populate the Earth and space
with complex, heterogeneous, interconnected, interdependent manmade
systems, suc...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-11-07</dc:date>
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