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Towards Linking Anonymous Authorship in Casual Sexual Encounter Ads
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The increasing use of the Internet to arrange sexual encounters presents challenges to public health agencies formulating STD interventions, particularly in the context of anonymous encounters. These encounters complicate or break traditional… read more… ads seeking sexual encounters from the classifieds website Craigslist and presented a way of linking multiple … ads. By matching phone numbers of this type across all ads, we can create a corpus of ad clusters known to be … of anonymous, sex-seeking ads found on the classifieds website Craigslist. This corpus is then used to validate an … -
Who Should We Be Listening to? Applying Models of User Authority to Detecting Emerging Topics on the EIN
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Emerging event detection is the process of automatically identifying novel and emerging ideas from text with minimal human intervention. With the rise of social networks like Twitter, topic detection has begun leveraging measures of user influence… read more… each author's contribution to the semantic energy of all terms occurring in within some interval ti. A decay … each author’s contribution to the semantic energy of all terms occurring in within some interval ti. A decay … of authority: (1) (emerging topic detection) ETD uniform (i.e., equal weight); (2) ETD PageRank; and (3) bellwether. …