1 Wikipedia/entity extraction-search

annotate entity references from unstructured/text content (e.g., comments,

tweets, answers) with unique id.s from a catalog (e.g., Michael Jordan (Basket
ball) vs Michael Jordan (machine learning) for a variety of applications (e.g.,
semantic search, document classification,match/merge
(leveraging broad categories like black players born in 1963, co-occurrence of
Charles Barkeley/Michael Jordan)

Curating and searching the annotated web

Collective annotation of Wikipedia entities in web text
Entity disambiguation with hierarchical topic models

Community question answering

respond to how-to search queries automatically from Yahoo! answers

Answers, not links: extracting tips from yahoo! answers to address how-to web queries
b

expose users to questions they can relate to, and possibly answer

I want to answer; who has a question?: Yahoo! answers recommender system

c

answer questions automatically based on past responses

Learning from the past: answering new questions with past answers
d

content quality: how rank/rate suitability of answers for Web-search queries

Predicting web searcher satisfaction with existing community-based answers

Personalization/UGC
a

News recommendation based on twitter persona

From chatter to headlines: harnessing the real-time web for personalized news recommendation
b

Assess credibility of tweets based on information diffusion

http://www.ra.ethz.ch/cdstore/www2011/proceedings/p675.pdf
c

How to recognize crowd wisdom, remove noise from it and augment it

with expert recommendations

http://oak.cs.ucla.edu/~chucheng/publication/WWW2013CNF.pdf
d. Predict for a given user suitable news stories for commenting
Care to comment?: recommendations for commenting on news stories

4. Crowd-sourced media collections (Flickr)

a
b

Generate aggregate knowledge in the form of representative tags for

arbitrary areas in the world (e.g., Vidhan Soudha for Bangalore, Marina
Beach, Valluvar Kottam for Chennai, etc.)
Location-tag-vision-based approach for retrieving iconic images of geographyrelated landmarks (e.g., Shiva temple, Place for Bangalore, Central station,
Kapali temple for Chennai, etc.)

How flickr helps us make sense of the world: context and content in community-contributed
media collections
Generating summaries and visualization for large collections of geo-referenced photographs
c

Suggest tags based on aggregating co-occurring descriptions (e.g., spain,

church for sagrada familia, Barcelona)

Flickr tag recommendation based on collective knowledge

d Classifying tags using open content resources (e.g., nyc (location), Chrysler building
(artifact), august (where))