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Research Areas

  1. Social media

Past Projects

  1. Indian Election 2009
  2. Twitterment
  3. Velador Engine

Publications

2022

  1. U. Lokala, F. Lamay, R. Daniulaityte, M. Gaur, A. Gyrard, K. Thirunarayan, U. Kursuncu, and A. Sheth, "Drug Abuse Ontology to Harness Web-Based Data for Substance Use Epidemiology Research: Ontology Development Study", Article, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, December 2022, 495 downloads.
  2. R. Razavisousan and K. P. Joshi, "Building Textual Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling to Analyze Factors of Student Mobility Based on User Generated Content", Article, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, November 2022, 618 downloads.
  3. P. Ranade, S. Dey, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Computational Understanding of Narratives: A Survey", Article, IEEE Access, September 2022, 523 downloads.
  4. D. Ghosh, P. Gupta, S. Dixit, and R. Yus, "JENNER: Just-in-time Enrichment in Query Processing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, September 2022, 477 downloads.

2021

  1. G. Shan, B. Zhao, J. Clavin, H. Zhang, and S. Duan, "Poligraph: Intrusion-Tolerant and Distributed Fake News Detection System", Article, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, November 2021.

2020

  1. Z. Boukouvalas, C. Mallinson, E. Crothers, N. Japkowicz, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Adali, "Independent Component Analysis for Trustworthy Cyberspace during High Impact Events: An Application to Covid-19", Article, arXiv:2006.01284 [cs.LG], June 2020, 526 downloads.

2019

  1. R. Razavisousan and K. P. Joshi, "Two Tier Analysis of Social Media Collaboration for Student Migration", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC), 2019, December 2019, 665 downloads.
  2. N. Khurana, S. Mittal, A. Piplai, and A. Joshi, "Preventing Poisoning Attacks on AI based Threat Intelligence Systems", InProceedings, IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing, September 2019, 1048 downloads.
  3. F. Ferraro, T. (. Huang, S. M. Lukin, and M. Mitchell, "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling", Proceedings, Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2019, 522 downloads.

2018

  1. P. Ranade, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and K. P. Joshi, "Using Deep Neural Networks to Translate Multi-lingual Threat Intelligence", InProceedings, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI) 2018, November 2018, 1511 downloads.
  2. P. Ranade, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and K. P. Joshi, "Understanding Multi-lingual Threat Intelligence for AI based Cyber-defense Systems", InProceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security, October 2018, 866 downloads.

2016

  1. S. Mittal, P. K. Das, V. Mulwad, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "CyberTwitter: Using Twitter to generate alerts for Cybersecurity Threats and Vulnerabilities", InProceedings, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), August 2016, 4240 downloads.

2015

  1. P. Jain, P. Kumaraguru, and A. Joshi, "Other Times, Other Values: Leveraging Attribute History to Link User Profiles across Online Social Networks", InProceedings, 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT15), August 2015, 1574 downloads.

2013

  1. H. Lamba, P. Kumaraguru, and A. Joshi, "Faking Sandy: Characterizing and Identifying Fake Images on Twitter during Hurricane Sandy", InProceedings, Second International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM), May 2013, 4115 downloads.
  2. P. Jain, P. Kumaraguru, and A. Joshi, "@I seek 'fb.me': Identifying Users across Multiple Online Social Networks", InProceedings, Second International Workshop on Web of Linked Entities (WoLE), May 2013, 1940 downloads.

2012

  1. A. Joshi and P. Kumaraguru, "Identifying and characterizing user communities on Twitter during crisis events", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on Data-driven user behavioral modelling and mining from social media, October 2012, 1607 downloads.

2011

  1. P. Jagtap, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and L. Zavala, "Preserving Privacy in Context-Aware Systems", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, October 2011, 1935 downloads.
  2. A. Iyengar, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Content-based prediction of temporal boundaries for events in Twitter", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, October 2011, 2208 downloads.
  3. V. Mulwad, W. Li, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and K. Viswanathan, "Extracting Information about Security Vulnerabilities from Web Text", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Web Intelligence for Information Security Workshop, August 2011, 3339 downloads.
  4. J. Sachs and T. Finin, "Social and Semantic Computing in Support of Citizen Science", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third Canadian Semantic Web Symposium, August 2011, 1341 downloads.
  5. A. Mahale, "Group Centric Information Sharing using Hierarchical Models", MastersThesis, UMBC, May 2011, 1641 downloads.
  6. P. Jagtap, "Privacy Preservation in Context Aware Systems", MastersThesis, May 2011, 1634 downloads.
  7. P. Jagtap, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and L. Zavala, "Privacy Preservation in Context Aware Geosocial Networking Applications", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2011, 2115 downloads.
  8. A. Gupta, K. Viswanathan, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and P. Kumaraguru, "Integrating Linked Open Data with Unstructured Text for Intelligence Gathering Tasks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, March 2011, 1867 downloads.

2010

  1. J. Sleeman and T. Finin, "Computing FOAF Co-reference Relations with Rules and Machine Learning", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Social Data on the Web at ISWC2010, November 2010, 4217 downloads, 30 citations.
  2. W. Murnane, "Improving Accuracy of Named Entity Recognition on Social Media Data", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2010, 5753 downloads, 3 citations.
  3. P. A. Kodeswaran and E. Viegas, "A Policy Based Infrastructure for Social Data Access with Privacy Guarantees", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, July 2010, 5167 downloads, 6 citations.
  4. A. Karandikar, "Clustering short status messages: A topic model based approach", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 2010, 10432 downloads.
  5. T. Finin, W. Murnane, A. Karandikar, N. Keller, J. Martineau, and M. Dredze, "Annotating named entities in Twitter data with crowdsourcing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Creating Speech and Text Language Data With Amazon's Mechanical Turk, June 2010, 3154 downloads.

2009

  1. C. Fink, C. Piatko, J. Mayfield, D. Chou, T. Finin, and J. Martineau, "The Geolocation of Web Logs from Textual Clues", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, August 2009, 1737 downloads, 2 citations.
  2. J. Martineau and T. Finin, "Delta TFIDF: An Improved Feature Space for Sentiment Analysis", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web and Social Media, May 2009, 7579 downloads, 5 citations.
  3. K. Burton, A. Java, and I. Soboroff, "The ICWSM 2009 Spinn3r Dataset", InProceedings, Third Annual Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2009), May 2009, 24 citations.
  4. C. Fink, C. Piatko, J. Mayfield, T. Finin, and J. Martineau, "Geolocating Blogs From Their Textual Content", InProceedings, Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0, March 2009, 3977 downloads, 1 citation.

2008

  1. A. Java, "Mining Social Media Communities and Content", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2008, 56942 downloads.
  2. T. Finin, A. Joshi, P. Kolari, A. Java, A. Kale, and A. Karandikar, "The Information ecology of social media and online communities", Article, AI Magazine, September 2008, 6759 downloads, 11 citations.
  3. A. Java, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Detecting Commmunities via Simultaneous Clustering of Graphs and Folksonomies", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD), August 2008, 7005 downloads, 5 citations.
  4. A. Java, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Approximating the Community Structure of the Long Tail", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), March 2008, 5690 downloads, 4 citations.
  5. J. Martineau and M. Hurst, "Blog Link Classification", InProceedings, Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008), March 2008, 1225 downloads, 1 citation.

2007

  1. P. Kolari, "Detecting Spam Blogs: An Adaptive Online Approach", PhdThesis, Ph.D. Dissertation, December 2007, 8806 downloads, 3 citations.
  2. A. Joshi, T. Finin, A. Java, A. Kale, and P. Kolari, "Web 2.0 Mining: Analyzing Social Media", InProceedings, Proceedings of the NSF Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation, October 2007, 5916 downloads, 5 citations.
  3. A. Java, X. Song, T. Finin, and B. Tseng, "Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities", InProceedings, Procedings of the Joint 9th WEBKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop 2007, August 2007, 63204 downloads, 342 citations.
  4. S. Balijepalli, "Blogvox2: A Modular Domain Independent Sentiment Analysis System", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, June 2007, 8261 downloads, 1 citation.
  5. A. Parafiynyk, C. Parr, J. Sachs, and T. Finin, "Adding Semantics to Social Websites for Citizen Science", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic e-Science (AAAI 07), June 2007, 6136 downloads, 3 citations.
  6. A. Kale, P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "On Modeling Trust in Social Media using Link Polarity", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2007, 3869 downloads.
  7. A. Kale, "Modeling Trust and Influence in Blogosphere using Link Polarity", MastersThesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, April 2007, 11317 downloads, 36 citations.
  8. A. Java, "A Framework for Modeling Influence, Opinions and Structure in Social Media", InProceedings, 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), April 2007, 5435 downloads, 4 citations.
  9. P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Java, and A. Joshi, "Towards Spam Detection at Ping Servers", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), March 2007, 2872 downloads, 5 citations.
  10. A. Kale, A. Karandikar, P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity", InProceedings, Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), March 2007, 4935 downloads, 36 citations.
  11. P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Java, and A. Joshi, "Spam in Blogs and Social Media, Tutorial", InProceedings, ICWSM 2007, March 2007, 3821 downloads, 3 citations.
  12. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, A. Joshi, and J. Martineau, "BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2007), January 2007, 3819 downloads, 8 citations.

2006

  1. P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, A. Joshi, and J. Martineau, "Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification", InCollection, TREC 2006 Blog Track Notebook, November 2006, 8566 downloads, 11 citations.
  2. P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, T. Oates, and A. Joshi, "Detecting Spam Blogs: A Machine Learning Approach", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), July 2006, 11541 downloads, 75 citations.
  3. P. Kolari, A. Java, and T. Finin, "Characterizing the Splogosphere", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Workshop on Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics, 15th World Wid Web Conference, May 2006, 7655 downloads, 84 citations.

Poster

  1. BlogVox2: Sentiment Detection in Political Blogs
  2. BlogVox2: Sentiment Detection in Political Blogs
  3. ICWSM 2008 Poster
  4. Improving Accuracy of Named Entity Recognition on Social Media Data
  5. Wikipedia as an ontology

Presentation

  1. Coarse and Fine Grained Sentiment Analysis of Online Text
  2. Constraining Information Flow in Social Networks with Privacy Policies
  3. Context-Aware Privacy Policies in Mobile and Social Computing
  4. Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web
  5. Information extraction from social media
  6. Linked Data for the Rest of Us
  7. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use
  8. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use for Sharing Science Data
  9. Negotiating Privacy, Boundaries and Visibility in a Networked World: Why We Need to Move Beyond Opt-in vs. Opt-Out
  10. On Leveraging Social Media
  11. Privacy Preservation in Context-Aware Systems
  12. spam in blogs and social media
  13. The Semantic Web: there and back again
  14. The Social Semantic Web
  15. Trust, Influence and Bias in Social Media
  16. Understanding RSM: Relief Social Media
  17. WIkipedia as an ontology

Brochure

  1. Planet Social Media Research Pamphlet

Document

  1. Spam in Blogs and Social Media
  1. Trust, Influence and Bias in Social Media

Old News

  1. Looking back at the ebiquity research group's 2006
    January 1, 2007

Old Events

  1. Tutorials by Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research students
    June 12, 2013
  2. MS defense: Social Media Analytics: Digital Footprints
    May 13, 2013
  3. The Semantic Web: there and back again
    April 18, 2013
  4. Social Media Analytics: Digital Footprints
    April 15, 2013
  5. Privacy and Security in Online Social Media
    March 11, 2013
  6. Masters Thesis Research Update: Sandhya Krishnan
    October 8, 2012
  7. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use
    April 1, 2012
  8. Analytics for Detecting Web and Social Media Abuse
    March 16, 2012
  9. Visiting students' presentations - Social Media Analytics
    February 16, 2012
  10. Linked Data for the Rest of Us
    January 12, 2012