On Modeling Trust in Social Media using Link Polarity 1 (2008)
Anubhav Kale, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
There is a growing interest in exploring the role of social networks to understand how communities and individuals spread influence. In a densely connected online world, social media and networks...
Minor(s): Professional publications: (2008)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Shashidhara Ganjugunte, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
’03). Title of Thesis: Extending Reasoning Infrastructure for Rules on the Semantic Web:
Modeling the Spread of Influence on the Blogosphere ABSTRACT (2008)
Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Tim Oates
Blogs have become a means by which new ideas and information spreads rapidly on the web. They often discuss the latest trends and echo with reactions to different events in the world. The collective...
Web (2.0) Mining: Analyzing Social Media (2008)
Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Akshay Java, Anubhav Kale, Pranam Kolari
Social media systems such as blogs, photo and link sharing sites, wikis and on-line forums are estimated to produce up to one third of new Web content. One thing that sets these ”Web 2.0 ” sites...
Policy Management of Enterprise Systems: A Requirements Study ∗ (2008)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
Policy enabled applications are being increasingly employed to support responsive Information Technology services. In competitive business environments, such services increase adaptability of both...
Policy Management of Enterprise Systems: A Requirements Study ∗ (2008)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha
Policy enabled applications are being increasingly employed to support responsive Information Technology services. In competitive business environments, such services increase adaptability of both...
Using Ontologies in the Semantic Web: A Survey (2008)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Zhongli Ding, Sasikanth Avancha, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, ...
The Semantic Web is well recognized as an effective infrastructure to enhance visibility of knowledge on the Web. The core of the Semantic Web is ontology, which is used to explicitly represent our...
Abstract Towards Spam Detection at Ping Servers ∗ (2008)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi
Spam blogs, or splogs feature plagiarized or auto-generated content. They create link farms to promote affiliates, and are motivated by the profitability of hosting ads. Splogs infiltrate the...
Conflict of Interest • Should Arpinar review Verma’s paper? (2008)
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...
• Situation(s) that may bias a decision • Why it is important to detect COI? – for transparency in circumstances such as contract allocation, IPOs, corporate law, and peer-review of scientific...
Using Ontologies in the Semantic Web: A Survey (2008)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Zhongli Ding, Sasikanth Avancha, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
The Semantic Web is well recognized as an effective infrastructure to enhance visibility of knowledge on the Web. The core of the Semantic Web is ontology, which is used to explicitly represent our...
Modeling trust and influence in the blogosphere using link polarity (2007)
Anubhav Kale, Amit Kar, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
There is a growing interest in social network analysis to explore how communities and individuals spread influence. We describe techniques to find "like minded " blogs based on...
Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions (2007)
Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Tim Oates
As the Blogosphere continues to grow, finding good quality feeds is becoming increasingly difficult. In this paper we present an analysis of the feeds subscribed by a set of publicly listed Bloglines...
On the structure, properties and utility of internal corporate blogs (2007)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Kelly Lyons, Yelena Yesha, Yaacov Yesha, Stephen Perelgut, ...
Weblogs, or blogs are radically changing the face of communication within enterprises. While at the minimum blogs empower employees to publicly voice opinion and share expertise, collectively they...
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...
In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...
Detecting Spam blogs: A machine learning approach (2006)
Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Tim Oates, Anupam Joshi
Weblogs or blogs are an important new way to publish information, engage in discussions, and form communities on the Internet. The Blogosphere has unfortunately been infected by several varieties of...
BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff (2006)
Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Justin Martineau, James Mayfield
Blog posts are often informally written, poorly structured, rife with spelling and grammatical errors, and feature non-traditional content. These characteristics make them difficult to process with...
BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff (2006)
Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Justin Martineau, James Mayfield
Blog posts are often informally written, poorly structured, rife with spelling and grammatical errors, and feature non-traditional content. These characteristics make them difficult to process with...
Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...
In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...
Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification (2006)
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, Justin Martineau
Spam blogs or Splogs are blogs with either auto-generated or plagiarized content created for the sole purpose of hosting ads, promoting affiliate sites and getting new pages indexed. Splogs now rival...
Enhancing web privacy protection through declarative policies (2005)
Pranam Kolari, Li Ding, Shashidhara G, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin
The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a W3C framework for web privacy management. It provides a standard vocabulary that websites can use to describe their privacy practices. The presence of...
On Homeland Security and the Semantic Web: (2005)
Provenance And Trust, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, ...
This paper focuses on one type of semantic association which is a simple path linking two RDF nodes in an given RDF graph, e.g. Mr. X Company A# Organization B, Osama Bin Laden
Swoogle: Searching for knowledge on the Semantic Web (2005)
Tim Finin, Li Ding, Rong Pan, Anupam Joshi, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, ...
Most knowledge on the Web is encoded as natural language text, which is convenient for human users but very difficult for software agents to understand. Even with increased use of XML-encoded...
Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web (2005)
Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Pranam Kolari
Abstract. Swoogle helps software agents and knowledge engineers find Semantic Web knowledge encoded in RDF and OWL documents on the Web. Navigating such a Semantic Web on the Web is difficult due to...
On homeland security and the semantic web: A provenance and trust aware inference framework (2005)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Yelena Yesha
Discovering and evaluating interesting patterns and semantic associations in vast amount of information provided by many different sources is an important and time-consuming work for homeland...
Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web (2005)
Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Pranam Kolari
Abstract. Swoogle is a system that helps knowledge engineers and software agents find knowledge on the web encoded in the semantic web languages RDF and OWL. Based on the search mechanisms provided...
Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web (2005)
Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Pranam Kolari
Abstract. Swoogle is a system that helps knowledge engineers and software agents find knowledge on the web encoded in the semantic web languages RDF and OWL. Based on the search mechanisms provided...
Modeling and evaluating trust network inference (2004)
Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Shashidhara Ganjugunte, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
The growth in knowledge sharing enabled by the (Semantic) Web has made trust an increasingly critical issue. Based on explicit inter-agent trust relations, a trust network emerges on the (Semantic)...
Enhancing P3P Framework through Policies and Trust (2004)
Pranam Kolari, Li Ding, Lalana Kagal, Shashidhara Ganjugunte, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin
Abstract. The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a W3C standard that websites can use to describe their privacy practices. The presence of P3P policies enable users to configure web browsers...
Enhancing P3P Framework through Policies and Trust (1998)
Kolari, Pranam, Ding, Li, Kagal, Lalana, Anupam Joshi, Shashidhara G., Finin, Tim
The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a W3C standard that web sites can use to describe their privacy practices. The presence of P3P policies enables users to configure web browsers to...
Modeling and Evaluating Trust Network Inference (1998)
Ding, Li, Kolari, Pranam, Ganjugunte, Shashidhara, Finin, Tim, Joshi, Anupam
The growth in knowledge sharing enabled by the (Semantic) Web has made trust an increasingly critical issue. Based on explicit inter-agent trust relations, a trust network emerges on the (Semantic)...