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Online chemical modeling environment (OCHEM): web platform for data storage, model development and publishing of chemical information

The Online Chemical Modeling Environment is a web-based platform that aims to automate and simplify the typical steps required for QSAR modeling. The platform consists of two major subsystems: the database of experimental measurements and the modeling fram ...

2011

From Web Data to Entities and Back

Zoltán Miklós, Michele Catasta, Nicolas Bonvin, Julien Gaugaz, Ekaterini Ioannou

We present the Entity Name System (ENS), an enabling infrastructure, which can host descriptions of named entities and provide unique identifiers, on large-scale. In this way, it opens new perspectives to realize entity-oriented, rather than keyword-orient ...

2010

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

Image-Based Mobile Service: Automatic Text Extraction and Translation

Jérôme Berclaz

We present a new mobile service for the translation of text from images taken by consumer-grade cell-phone cameras. Such capability represents a new paradigm for users where a simple image provides the basis for a service. The ubiquity and ease of use of c ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2010

Towards Collaborative Portable Web Spaces

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

As two recent trends in Web development, Widgets and mashups, are converging, we claim that there is a growing need to define a Widget Space configuration language to allow building flexible personal learning environments that could be independent of a run ...

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

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

Social Software Modeling and Mashup based on Actors, Activities and Assets

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy Ingram, Evgeny Bogdanov

Despite the extreme diversity of Web applications, one can find similarities among them. This paper proposes an answer to the question of knowing whether it is possible to conceptually represent different Web applications in a common manner such that they ...

2008

Distributed link-based ranking in P2P Web retrieval

Jie Wu

One of the main differences between modern search engines and traditional ones is the adoption of link-based ranking algorithm in ordering Web documents. Google has claimed that it is its link-based ranking algorithm, PageRank that has made the quality of ...

EPFL2006