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  <title><![CDATA[Masters Thesis Research Update: Sandhya Krishnan]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/438/Masters-Thesis-Research-Update-Sandhya-Krishnan</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In this week's lab meeting Sandhya Krishnan will present her proposed thesis topic:

Abstract: Content available on social media, can be used to understand the profile, behavior and interests of a user. Text mining and information retrieval tools can be used to extract words and topics which represent the content of the particular user in a given time frame. The goal if this thesis work is to analyze content of prominent user accounts on Social media [example: social media accounts of polit...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2012-10-08</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/354/Wikitology-A-Novel-Hybrid-Knowledge-Base-Derived-from-Wikipedia">
  <title><![CDATA[Wikitology: A Novel Hybrid Knowledge Base Derived from Wikipedia]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/354/Wikitology-A-Novel-Hybrid-Knowledge-Base-Derived-from-Wikipedia</link>
  <description><![CDATA[PhD Defense

World knowledge may be available in different forms such as
relational databases, triple stores, link graphs, meta-data and
free text. Human minds are capable of understanding and
reasoning over knowledge represented in different ways and are
influenced by social, contextual and environmental factors. By
following a similar model, we have integrated a variety of
knowledge sources in a novel way to produce a single hybrid
knowledge base, Wikitology, enabling applications ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2010-07-19</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Multivariate Time Series Analysis of Physiological and Clinical Data]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/314/Multivariate-Time-Series-Analysis-of-Physiological-and-Clinical-Data</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Patricia Ordóñez Rozo will talk abut her
PhD research

Multivariate Time Series Amalgams (MTSAs) provide an integrated,
multivariate approach to representing clinical and physiological
data. The hybrid representation automates the personalization of
baselines and thresholds based on a patient’s medical history while
also incorporating traditional baselines and thresholds. The
visualization of this representation captures the rate of change of
provider-selected parameters and the ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2009-09-23</dc:date>
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  <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>
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  <title><![CDATA[Textual Representations for Corpus-Based Bilingual Retrieval]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/276/Textual-Representations-for-Corpus-Based-Bilingual-Retrieval</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The traditional approach to information retrieval is based on using
words as the indexing and search terms for documents. One part of this
research investigates alternative methods for representing text,
including a method based on overlapping sequences of characters called
n-gram tokenization. N-grams are studied in depth and one notable
finding is that they achieve a 20% improvement in retrieval
effectiveness over words in certain situations.

The other focus of this research is imp...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-11-24</dc:date>
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 <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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  <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>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/209/Opportunistic-Bartering-Of-Digital-Goods-and-Services">
  <title><![CDATA[Opportunistic Bartering Of Digital Goods and Services]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/209/Opportunistic-Bartering-Of-Digital-Goods-and-Services</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The vision of mobile personal devices querying peers in their environment
for information such as local restaurant recommendations or directions to
the closest gas station, or traffic and weather updates has long been a
goal of the pervasive research community.  However, considering the
diversity and the personal nature of devices participating in pervasive
environments it is not feasible to assume that these interactions and
collaborations will take place with out economically-driven m...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-08-03</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/208/Blogvox2-A-Modular-Domain-Independent-Sentiment-Analysis-System">
  <title><![CDATA[Blogvox2: A Modular Domain Independent Sentiment Analysis System]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/208/Blogvox2-A-Modular-Domain-Independent-Sentiment-Analysis-System</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Bloggers make a huge impact on society by representing and
Influencing the people.  Blogging by nature is about expressing
and listening to opinion, the job of a politician is to both
represent and lead the people, good sentiment detection tools,
for blogs and other social media, tailored to politics are a must
for today's society. With the elections around the corner,
political blogs are vital to exerting and keeping political
influence over society.  Currently, no sentiment analysis...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-06-07</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/38/Looking-back-at-the-ebiquity-research-group-s-2006">
  <title><![CDATA[Looking back at the ebiquity research group's 2006]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/38/Looking-back-at-the-ebiquity-research-group-s-2006</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Maybe it's a bit of a cliché, but this is the traditional time to look back on the past year and reflect on how things are going.  It has been an active productive year.  Here's a rundown of our past year by the numbers.

205,000 is the number of visits to the Ebiquity web site.  Our monthly page visits increased five fold over the year and we currently receive about 25,000 visits a month.


   



743 people have
registered as users of the Swoogle
semantic web search system.  By ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-01-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/37/UMBC-researchers-investigate-the-Blogosphere">
  <title><![CDATA[UMBC researchers investigate the Blogosphere]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/37/UMBC-researchers-investigate-the-Blogosphere</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Research on detecting "splogs" by Professors Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Tim Oates and PhD students Pranam Kolari and Akshay Java of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department was mentioned in an article in the September issue of Wired Magazine.  Splogs are spam weblogs that are automatically generated to host advertisements or to raise the rank or affiliated web sites.  The UMBC group recently published a study showing that more than half of the active English language blogs ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-09-05</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/108/Modelling-the-evolution-of-climate-change-research">
  <title><![CDATA[Modelling the evolution of climate change research]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/108/Modelling-the-evolution-of-climate-change-research</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We are developing algorithms using dynamic topic modeling to understand influence and predict future trends in a scientific discipline. As an initial use case, we are applying this to climate change and use assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the papers they cite. Since 1990, an IPCC report has been published every five years that includes four separate volumes, each of which has many chapters. Each report cites tens of thousands of research papers, ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2015-01-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/72/Policy-Management-for-Enterprise-Applications">
  <title><![CDATA[Policy Management for Enterprise Applications]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/72/Policy-Management-for-Enterprise-Applications</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This project explores the role of policy management in enterprise applications where --

The workflow and the information it operates on are well structured.
Knowledge on the Web influences decisions made by role players.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-06-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1181/Global-Relevance-of-Online-Health-Information-Sources-A-Case-Study-of-Experiences-and-Perceptions-of-Nigerians">
  <title><![CDATA[Global Relevance of Online Health Information Sources: A Case Study of  Experiences and Perceptions of Nigerians]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1181/Global-Relevance-of-Online-Health-Information-Sources-A-Case-Study-of-Experiences-and-Perceptions-of-Nigerians</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Online health information sources (OHIS) offer potential for improving access to health information especially in areas with limited healthcare infrastructure. However, OHIS predominantly originates from Western societies potentially ignoring the specific needs and cultural contexts of diverse populations. There is limited research on the global suitability of OHIS content. This study explores the global relevance of OHIS for diverse populations through a case study examining user experiences...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2024-11-13</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1182/WIP-The-effect-of-scholarships-and-community-on-graduation-rates-for-STEM-majors">
  <title><![CDATA[WIP: The effect of scholarships and community on graduation rates for STEM majors]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1182/WIP-The-effect-of-scholarships-and-community-on-graduation-rates-for-STEM-majors</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This WIP research paper describes a key challenge faced by STEM disciplines, especially Engineering and Computing, namely the graduation rate of students. Many models that show a return on investment in higher education for individuals and the state work only when students graduate. However, graduation rates are strongly influenced by students’ ability to focus on their studies. Anecdotally, faculty believe that when students must spend a significant time each week working in a job to pay (...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2024-10-16</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1063/POQue-Asking-Participant-specific-Outcome-Questions-for-a-Deeper-Understanding-of-Complex-Events">
  <title><![CDATA[POQue: Asking Participant-specific Outcome Questions for a Deeper  Understanding of Complex Events]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1063/POQue-Asking-Participant-specific-Outcome-Questions-for-a-Deeper-Understanding-of-Complex-Events</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Knowledge about outcomes is critical for complex event understanding but is hard to acquire.We show that by pre-identifying a participant in a complex event, crowdworkers are ableto (1) infer the collective impact of salient events that make up the situation, (2) annotate the volitional engagement of participants in causing the situation, and (3) ground theoutcome of the situation in state changes of the participants. By creating a multi-step interface and a careful quality control strategy, ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2022-12-07</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1064/A-General-Framework-for-Auditing-Differentially-Private-Machine-Learning">
  <title><![CDATA[A General Framework for Auditing Differentially Private Machine Learning]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1064/A-General-Framework-for-Auditing-Differentially-Private-Machine-Learning</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We present a framework to statistically audit the privacy guarantee conferred by a differentially private machine learner in practice. While previous works have taken steps toward evaluating privacy loss through poisoning attacks or membership inference, they have been tailored to specific models or have demonstrated low statistical power. Our work develops a general methodology to empirically evaluate the privacy of differentially private machine learning implementations, combining improved ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2022-11-28</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1032/Building-Textual-Fuzzy-Interpretive-Structural-Modeling-to-Analyze-Factors-of-Student-Mobility-Based-on-User-Generated-Content">
  <title><![CDATA[Building Textual Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling to Analyze Factors of Student Mobility Based on User Generated Content]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1032/Building-Textual-Fuzzy-Interpretive-Structural-Modeling-to-Analyze-Factors-of-Student-Mobility-Based-on-User-Generated-Content</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Many factors influence student mobility across regions and countries. The roles of these factors, along with their interrelationship and interaction, make student mobility a complex decision-making issue. Many textual data generated on social media can answer many open questions about factors affecting human behavior, particularly social mobility. We have developed a novel methodology, called Textual Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling (TFISM), that automatically analyses large textual dat...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2022-11-02</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1033/Computational-Understanding-of-Narratives-A-Survey">
  <title><![CDATA[Computational Understanding of Narratives: A Survey]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1033/Computational-Understanding-of-Narratives-A-Survey</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Storytelling and the delivery of societal narratives enable human beings to communicate, connect, and understand one another and the world around them. Narratives can be defined as spoken, visual, or written accounts of interconnected events and actors, generally evolving through some notion of time. Today, information is typically conveyed over online communication mediums, such as social media and blogging websites. Consequently, the act of narrative delivery itself has shifted from simply ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2022-09-05</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1034/Re-imagining-the-Power-of-Priming-and-Framing-Effects-in-the-Context-of-Political-Crowdfunding-Campaigns">
  <title><![CDATA[Re-imagining the Power of Priming and Framing Effects in the Context of Political Crowdfunding Campaigns]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1034/Re-imagining-the-Power-of-Priming-and-Framing-Effects-in-the-Context-of-Political-Crowdfunding-Campaigns</link>
  <description><![CDATA[through which politicians raise money to fund their election campaigns.  Divisive issues discussed in these campaigns may not only motivate donations but also could have a broader priming effect on people’s social opinions. In the U.S., more than one-third of the population with moderate opinions show a tendency to swing their opinion based on recent and more accessible events. In this paper, we ask: can such campaigns further prime people’s responses to partisan topics, even when we disc...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2022-04-27</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1007/The-Use-of-Machine-Learning-to-Infer-the-Transport-Influence-of-US-West-Coast-WildFires-on-the-US-East-Coast-Planetary-Boundary-Layer">
  <title><![CDATA[The Use of Machine Learning to Infer the Transport Influence of US West Coast WildFires on the US East Coast Planetary Boundary Layer]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1007/The-Use-of-Machine-Learning-to-Infer-the-Transport-Influence-of-US-West-Coast-WildFires-on-the-US-East-Coast-Planetary-Boundary-Layer</link>
  <description><![CDATA[According to California’s Office of Emergency Services, during the early part of September 2020, California experienced unprecedented wildfires due to a combination of dry weather, heat waves, and lightning strikes. The wildfires created extreme devastation in California and surrounding areas. It was also observed that smoke resulting from the wildfires was transported across the United States. Understanding the potential effects that transported wildfire smoke can have on air quality is of...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2021-12-17</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1035/Interpretable-Explanations-for-Probabilistic-Inference-in-Markov-Logic">
  <title><![CDATA[Interpretable Explanations for Probabilistic Inference in Markov Logic]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/1035/Interpretable-Explanations-for-Probabilistic-Inference-in-Markov-Logic</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) represent relational knowledge using a combination of first-order logic and probabilistic models. In this paper, we develop an approach to explain the results of probabilistic inference in MLNs. Unlike approaches such as LIME and SHAP that explain black-box classifiers, e explaining MLN inference is harder since the data is interconnected. We develop an explanation framework that computes importance weights for MLN formulas based on their influence on the marginal...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2021-12-15</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/870/Using-Lidar-and-Machine-Learning-to-Identify-Planetary-Boundary-Layer-Heights">
  <title><![CDATA[Using Lidar and Machine Learning to Identify Planetary Boundary Layer Heights]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/870/Using-Lidar-and-Machine-Learning-to-Identify-Planetary-Boundary-Layer-Heights</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Accurate reporting of Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) height is critical for weather prediction, pollution studies, and air quality monitoring.  The majority of aerosols are contained in the PBL, therefore accurate measurements of its height can result in a more accurate prediction of the volume for aerosol dispersion.  For general circulation models in particular, accounting for the influence of the boundary layer, which has atmospheric dynamic and thermodynamic effects, has a direct impact o...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2019-12-01</dc:date>
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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>
  <dc:date>2026-10-08</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/230/BlogVox2-Sentiment-Detection-in-Political-Blogs">
  <title><![CDATA[BlogVox2: Sentiment Detection in Political Blogs]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/230/BlogVox2-Sentiment-Detection-in-Political-Blogs</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Bloggers make a huge impact on society by representing and influencing the people.
Blogging by nature is about expressing and listening to opinion. Good sentiment detection
tools, for blogs and other social media, tailored to politics can be a useful tool for
today’s society. With the elections around the corner, political blogs are vital to exerting
and keeping political influence over society. Currently, no sentiment analysis framework
that is tailored to Political Blogs exist. Hence...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-07-09</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/231/BlogVox2-Sentiment-Detection-in-Political-Blogs">
  <title><![CDATA[BlogVox2: Sentiment Detection in Political Blogs]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/231/BlogVox2-Sentiment-Detection-in-Political-Blogs</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Bloggers make a huge impact on society by representing and influencing the people.
Blogging by nature is about expressing and listening to opinion. Good sentiment detection
tools, for blogs and other social media, tailored to politics can be a useful tool for
today’s society. With the elections around the corner, political blogs are vital to exerting
and keeping political influence over society. Currently, no sentiment analysis framework
that is tailored to Political Blogs exist. Hence...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-07-09</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/173/Modeling-the-Spread-of-Influence-on-the-Blogosphere">
  <title><![CDATA[Modeling the Spread of Influence on the Blogosphere]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/173/Modeling-the-Spread-of-Influence-on-the-Blogosphere</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ebiquity meeting presentation 04/12/06]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-04-12</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/194/Semantically-Linked-Bayesian-Networks">
  <title><![CDATA[Semantically-Linked Bayesian Networks]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/194/Semantically-Linked-Bayesian-Networks</link>
  <description><![CDATA[At the present time, Bayesian networks (BNs), presumably the most popular uncertainty inference framework, are still widely used as standalone systems. When the problem itself is distributed, domain knowledge has to be centralized and unified before a single BN can be created. Alternatively, separate BNs describing related sub-domains or different aspects of the same domain may be created, but it is difficult to combine them for problem solving even if the interdependent relations between var...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-08-02</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/271/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/271/Trust-Influence-and-Bias-in-Social-Media</link>
  <dc:date>2009-06-11</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>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/280/Understanding-RSM-Relief-Social-Media">
  <title><![CDATA[Understanding RSM: Relief Social Media]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/280/Understanding-RSM-Relief-Social-Media</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This presentation 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.

There has been a dramatic rise in the use of online social media
systems like Tw...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2009-09-15</dc:date>
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