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

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

Atom: Horizontally Scaling Strong Anonymity

Bryan Alexander Ford, Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

Atom is an anonymous messaging system that protects against traffic-analysis attacks. Unlike many prior systems, each Atom server touches only a small fraction of the total messages routed through the network. As a result, the system’s capacity scales near ...

Association for Computing Machinery2017

Data Summarization with Social Contexts

Karl Aberer, Tian Guo, Rameez Rahman, Hao Zhuang, Xia Hu

While social data is being widely used in various applications such as sentiment analysis and trend prediction, its sheer size also presents great challenges for storing, sharing and processing such data. These challenges can be addressed by data summariza ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Reactive Processing of RDF Streams of Events

Karl Aberer, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez

Events on the Web are increasingly being produced in the form of data streams, and are present in many different scenarios and applications such as health monitoring, environmental sensing or social networks. The heterogeneity of event streams has raised t ...

2015

Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer: substructure and similarity searching of molecules from Wikipedia

Luc Patiny, Michaël Giuseppe Zasso

Background: Wikipedia, the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia is an indispensable source of chemistry information. It contains among others also entries for over 15,000 chemicals including metabolites, drugs, agrochemicals and industrial chemica ...

Biomed Central Ltd2015

B-hist: Entity-centric search over personal web browsing history

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Web Search is increasingly entity centric; as a large fraction of common queries target specific entities, search results get progressively augmented with semi-structured and multimedia information about those entities. However, search over personal web br ...

Elsevier2014

A :) Is Worth a Thousand Words: How People Attach Sentiment to Emoticons and Words in Tweets

Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Marina Boia

Emoticons are widely used to express positive or negative sentiment on Twitter. We report on a study with live users to determine whether emoticons are used to merely emphasize the sentiment of tweets, or whether they are the main elements carrying the sen ...

IEEE2013

ChemCalc: a building block for tomorrow’s chemical infrastructure

Alain Borel, Luc Patiny

Web services, as an aspect of cloud computing, are becoming an important part of the general IT infrastructure, and scientific computing is no exception to this trend. We propose a simple approach to develop chemical web services, through which servers cou ...

2013

Entity-based Classification of Twitter Messages

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva

Twitter is a popular micro-blogging service on theWeb, where people can enter short messages, which then become visible to some other users of the service. While the topics of these messages varies, there are a lot of messages where the users express their ...

2012

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