Publication

Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers

Tangible Interfaces for Learning : Training Spatial Skills in Vocational Classrooms

There have been many claims that Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) can have a positive impact on learning. Alleged benefits include increasing usability, improving engagement and collaboration of students, and providing a better perception of the task, esp ...

EPFL2013

Quality-aware similarity assessment for entity matching in Web data

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva

One of the key challenges to realize automated processing of the information on the Web, which is the central goal of the Semantic Web, is related to the entity matching problem. There are a number of tools that reliably recognize named entities, such as p ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Outtweeting the Twitterers - Predicting Information Cascades in Microblogs

Karl Aberer, Wojciech Galuba, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Zoran Despotovic

Microblogging sites are a unique and dynamic Web 2.0 communication medium. Understanding the information flow in these systems can not only provide better insights into the underlying sociology, but is also crucial for applications such as content ranking, ...

2010

Efficient Processing of Ranking Queries in Novel Applications

Parisa Haghani

Ranking queries, which return only a subset of results matching a user query, have been studied extensively in the past decade due to their importance in a wide range of applications. In this thesis, we study ranking queries in novel environments and setti ...

EPFL2010

A Comparison of Techniques for Sampling Web Pages

Monika Henzinger, Eda Baykan

As the World Wide Web is growing rapidly, it is getting increasingly challenging to gather representative information about it. Instead of crawling the web exhaustively one has to resort to other techniques like sampling to determine the properties of the ...

2009

Understanding the Web

Eda Baykan

The World Wide Web is one of the most widely used information resources. Understanding the web better will enable us to benefit more of it. In this thesis we develop techniques to learn the properties of the web pages like language and topic using only the ...

EPFL2009

User Performance in Interaction with Web-GIS: A Semi-Automated Methodology Using Log-Files and Streaming-Tools

François Golay, Jens Ingensand

This paper describes a framework of methods for the measurement and evaluation of users' performance in interaction with a web-GIS. The framework involves testing of a system with real-world users, streaming of the user's screen during the evaluation and t ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

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

Web page language identification based on URLs

Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber, Eda Baykan

Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its language? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Such a language classifier is, for example, useful for crawlers of web search engines, which frequently try to satisfy certain language quot ...

2008

Contextualized and personalized location-based services

Shijun Yu

Advances in the technologies of smart mobile devices and tiny sensors together with the increase in the number of web resources open up a plethora of new mobile information services where people can acquire and disseminate information at any place and any ...

EPFL2008