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Content Moderation in Online Platforms

A critical role of online platforms like Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon, Doordash, and Tinder is to moderate content. Interventions like banning users or deleting comments are carried out thousands of times daily and can potentially improve our onlin ...

EPFL2024

Taking Back Our Commons: Social Media APIs as Subversive Tools

Our actual internet landscape is dominated by a handful of private actors we use on a daily basis: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, amongst others. These actors, in constant search of an optimization of their data transmission processes and user experiences, ...

2023

A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia

Tiziano Piccardi, Daniele Rama

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However, despite their widespr ...

SPRINGER2022

MINERVA: Browser API Fuzzing with Dynamic Mod-Ref Analysis

Mathias Josef Payer, Yu Jiang, Chijin Zhou

Browser APIs are essential to the modern web experience. Due to their large number and complexity, they vastly expand the attack surface of browsers. To detect vulnerabilities in these APIs, fuzzers generate test cases with a large amount of random API inv ...

New York2022

Spikyball Sampling: Exploring Large Networks via an Inhomogeneous Filtered Diffusion

Nicolas Aspert, Volodymyr Miz, Benjamin Ricaud

Studying real-world networks such as social networks or web networks is a challenge. These networks often combine a complex, highly connected structure together with a large size. We propose a new approach for large scale networks that is able to automatic ...

2020

Debunking Misinformation on the Web: Detection, Validation, and Visualisation

Thành Tâm Nguyên

Our modern society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of online misinformation, which does harm to democracy, economics, and cybersecurity. Journalism and politics have been impacted by misinformation on a global scale, with weakened public trust i ...

EPFL2019

Unified and Scalable Incremental Recommenders with Consumed Item Packs

Rachid Guerraoui, Rhicheek Patra

Recommenders personalize the web content using collaborative filtering to relate users (or items). This work proposes to unify user-based, item-based and neural word embeddings types of recommenders under a single abstraction for their input, we name Consu ...

Springer2019

Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers

Robert West

As one of the Web's primary multilingual knowledge sources, Wikipedia is read by millions of people across the globe every day. Despite this global readership, little is known about why users read Wikipedia's various language editions. To bridge this gap, ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

The Value of Concepts in the Shared Design Practice

Dario Rodighiero

Gilles Deleuze was used to say that philosophers are creators of concepts, extracted by a continuous flux of thinking (Deleuze 1980). These concepts, during a period of intense exchange between disciplines in the 20th century, have not been limited to phil ...

2018

Visual prominence vs architectural sensitivity of solar applications in existing urban areas: an experience with web-shared photos

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Pietro Florio

Architectural integration of solar technologies in the built environment is a challenge: one of the key tasks is the identification of homogeneous zones of intervention as a function of the solar energy potential and “criticity”, a combination of the socio ...

Elsevier2017

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