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Automatic Online Fake News Detection Combining Content and Social Signals

Stefano Moret, Gabriele Ballarin

The proliferation and rapid diffusion of fake news on the Internet highlight the need of automatic hoax detection systems. In the context of social networks, machine learning (ML) methods can be used for this purpose. Fake news detection strategies are tra ...

IEEE2018

Privacy in Recommender Systems

Mahsa Taziki

The upsurge in the number of web users over the last two decades has resulted in a significant growth of online information. Recommenders are machine learning approach and are becoming one of the main ways to navigate the Internet. They recommend appropria ...

EPFL2018

Web Content Credibility

This book introduces readers to Web content credibility evaluation and evaluation support. It highlights empirical research and establishes a solid foundation for future research by presenting methods of supporting credibility evaluation of online content, ...

Springer2018

Blending Digital and Face-to-Face Interaction Using a Co -Located Social MediaApp in Class

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Benoît Garbinato

Improving face-to-face (f2f) interaction in large classrooms is a challenging task as student participation can be hard to initiate. Thanks to the wide adoption of personal mobile devices, it is possible to blend digital and face-to-face interaction and in ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

A Predictive Model for User Motivation and Utility Implications of Privacy-Protection Mechanisms in Location Check-Ins

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic, Reza Shokri, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Joana Catarina Soares Machado, Stefan Mihaila

Location check-ins contain both geographical and semantic information about the visited venues. Semantic information is usually represented by means of tags (e.g., “restaurant”). Such data can reveal some personal information about users beyond what they a ...

2018

Towards Scalable Personalization

Rhicheek Patra

The ever-growing amount of online information calls for Personalization. Among the various personalization systems, recommenders have become increasingly popular in recent years. Recommenders typically use collaborative filtering to suggest the most releva ...

EPFL2018

Topics in Educational Cyber-Physical Labs

Wissam Halimi

Recent advances in remote sensing and actuation technologies, coupled with the large reach of the internet, allowed for the emergence of applications such as cyber-physical labs. Cyber-physical labs are the digital and remotely-accessible equivalent of the ...

EPFL2018

Fighting Rumours on Social Media

Chi Thang Duong

With the advance of social platforms, people are sharing contents in an unprecedented scale. This makes social platforms an ideal place for spreading rumors. As rumors may have negative impacts on the real world, many rumor detection techniques have been p ...

2018

Discovering Interaction Patterns in Online Learning Environments

Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

The increasing amount of data collected in online learning environments provides unique opportunities to better understand the learning processes in different educational settings. Learning analytics research aims at understanding and optimizing learning a ...

EPFL2018

Three's a Crowd?

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

According to conventional wisdom on crowdsourcing, the number of people defines the crowd and maximization of this number is often assumed to be the goal of any crowdsourcing exercise. However, some structural characteristics of the crowd might be more imp ...

Oxford University Press2018