Publications by Adriana Budura

Efficient Interest Group Discovery in Social Networks using an Integrated Structure/Quality Index

Karl Aberer, Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel

2011

Leveraging User-Generated Content for Information Discovery on the Web

The large-scale adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm has revolutionized the way we interact with the Web today. End-users, so far mainly passive consumers of information are now becoming active information producers, creating, uploading, and commenting on all ...

EPFL2010

Neighborhood-based Tag Prediction

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel

We consider the problem of tag prediction in collaborative tagging systems where users share and annotate resources on the Web. We put forward HAMLET, a novel approach to automatically propagate tags along the edges of a graph which relates similar documen ...

2009

PicShark: Mitigating Metadata Scarcity Through Large-Scale P2P Collaboration

Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura

With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather than data production is the main bottleneck. Metadata scarcity represents a ma ...

2008

To Tag or Not to Tag ? Harvesting Adjacent Metadata in Large-Scale Tagging Systems

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel

We present HAMLET, a suite of principles, scoring models and algorithms to automatically propagate metadata along edges in a document neighborhood. As a showcase scenario we consider tag prediction in community-based Web 2.0 tagging applications. Experimen ...

ACM2008

From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and back - How did your Grandma use to tag?

Karl Aberer, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Sebastian Michel, Adriana Budura

We consider the applicability of terms extracted from anchortext as a source of Web page descriptions in the form of tags. With a relatively simple and easy-to-use method, we show that anchortext significantly overlaps with tags obtained from the popular t ...

2008

From Bioinformatic Web Portals to Semantically Integrated Data Grid Networks

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura

We propose a semi-automated method for redeploying bioinformatic databases indexed in a Web portal as a decentralized, semantically integrated and service-oriented Data Grid. We generate peer-to-peer schema mappings leveraging on cross-referenced instances ...

2007

Self-Organizing Schema Mappings in the GridVine Peer Data Management System

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Parisa Haghani, Adriana Budura

GridVine is a Peer Data Management System based on a decentralized access structure. Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer -- where data, schemas and mappings are managed -- from a physical layer consisting of a s ...

2007

Analyzing Semantic Interoperability in Bioinformatic Database Networks

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Julien Gaugaz

We consider the problem of analytically evaluating semantic interoperability in large-scale networks of schemas interconnected through pairwise schema mappings. Our heuristics are based on a graph-theoretic framework capturing important statistical propert ...

2005