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    Disentangling categorical relationships through a graph of co-occurrences
    (American Physical Society, 2011-10-19) Borge Holthoefer, Javier; Arenas, Alex; Capitán, José A.; Cuesta, José A.; Martínez Romo, Juan; Araujo Serna, M. Lourdes
    The mesoscopic structure of complex networks has proven a powerful level of description to understand the linchpins of the system represented by the network. Nevertheless, themapping of a series of relationships between elements, in terms of a graph, is sometimes not straightforward. Given that all the information we would extract using complex network tools depend on this initial graph, it is mandatory to preprocess the data to build it on in the most accurate manner. Here we propose a procedure to build a network, attending only to statistically significant relations between constituents. We use a paradigmatic example of word associations to show the development of our approach. Analyzing the modular structure of the obtained network we are able to disentangle categorical relations, disambiguating words with success that is comparable to the best algorithms designed to the same end.
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    Automatic detection of trends in time-stamped sequences : an evolutionary approach
    (Springer-Verlag, 2009-01-14) Merelo, Juan Julián; Araujo Serna, M. Lourdes
    This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm for modeling the arrival dates in time-stamped data sequences such as newscasts, e-mails, IRC conversations, scientific journal articles or weblog postings. These models are applied to the detection of buzz (i.e. terms that occur with a higher-than-normal frequency) in them, which has attracted a lot of interest in the online world with the increasing number of periodic content producers. That is why in this paper we have used this kind of online sequences to test our system, though it is also valid for other types of event sequences. The algorithm assigns frequencies (number of events per time unit) to time intervals so that it produces an optimal fit to the data. The optimization procedure is a trade off between accurately fitting the data and avoiding too many frequency changes, thus overcoming the noise inherent in these sequences. This process has been traditionally performed using dynamic programming algorithms, which are limited by memory and efficiency requirements. This limitation can be a problem when dealing with long sequences, and suggests the application of alternative search methods with some degree of uncertainty to achieve tractability, such as the evolutionary algorithm proposed in this paper. This algorithm is able to reach the same solution quality as those classical dynamic programming algorithms, but in a shorter time. We also test different cost functions and propose a new one that yields better fits than the one originally proposed by Kleinberg on real-world data. Finally, several distributions of states for the finite state automata are tested, with the result that an uniform distribution produces much better fits than the geometric distribution also proposed by Kleinberg. We also present a variant of the evolutionary algorithm, which achieves a fast fit of a sequence extended with new data, by taking advantage of the fit obtained for the original subsequence.
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    Analyzing information retrieval methods to recover broken web links
    (2011-06-19) Martínez Romo, Juan; Araujo Serna, M. Lourdes
    In this work we compare different techniques to automatically find candidate web pages to substitute broken links. We extract information from the anchor text, the content of the page containing the link, and the cache page in some digital library.The selected information is processed and submitted to a search engine. We have compared different information retrievalmethods for both, the selection of terms used to construct the queries submitted to the search engine, and the ranking of the candidate pages that it provides, in order to help the user to find the best replacement. In particular, we have used term frequencies, and a language model approach for the selection of terms; and cooccurrence measures and a language model approach for ranking the final results. To test the different methods, we have also defined a methodology which does not require the user judgments, what increases the objectivity of the results.
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    Identifying patterns for unsupervised grammar induction
    (2010-07-15) Santamaría, Jesús; Araujo Serna, M. Lourdes
    This paper describes a new method for unsupervised grammar induction based on the automatic extraction of certain patterns in the texts. Our starting hypothesis is that there exist some classes of words that function as separators, marking the beginning or the end of new constituents. Among these separators we distinguish those which trigger new levels in the parse tree. If we are able to detect these separators we can follow a very simple procedure to identify the constituents of a sentence by taking the classes of words between separators. This paper is devoted to describe the process that we have followed to automatically identify the set of separators from a corpus only annotated with Part-of-Speech (POS) tags. The proposed approach has allowed us to improve the results of previous proposals when parsing sentences fromtheWall Street Journal corpus.
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    Detecting malicious tweets in trending topics using a statistical analysis of language
    (Elsevier, 2013-06-01) Martínez Romo, Juan; Araujo Serna, M. Lourdes
    Twitter spam detection is a recent area of research in which most previous works had focused on the identification of malicious user accounts and honeypot-based approaches. However, in this paper we present a methodology based on two new aspects: the detection of spam tweets in isolation and without previous information of the user; and the application of a statistical analysis of language to detect spam in trending topics. Trending topics capture the emerging Internet trends and topics of discussion that are in everybody’s lips. This growing microblogging phenomenon therefore allows spammers to disseminate malicious tweets quickly and massively. In this paper we present the first work that tries to detect spam tweets in real time using language as the primary tool. We first collected and labeled a large dataset with 34 K trending topics and 20 million tweets. Then, we have proposed a reduced set of features hardly manipulated by spammers. In addition, we have developed a machine learning system with some orthogonal features that can be combined with other sets of features with the aim of analyzing emergent characteristics of spam in social networks. We have also conducted an extensive evaluation process that has allowed us to show how our system is able to obtain an F-measure at the same level as the best state-ofthe- art systems based on the detection of spam accounts. Thus, our system can be applied to Twitter spam detection in trending topics in real time due mainly to the analysis of tweets instead of user accounts.
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    Web spam detection : new classification features based on qualified link analysis and language models
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010-09-01) Araujo Serna, M. Lourdes; Martínez Romo, Juan
    Web spam is a serious problem for search engines because the quality of their results can be severely degraded by the presence of this kind of page. In this paper, we present an efficient spam detection system based on a classifier that combines new link-based features with language-model (LM)-based ones. These features are not only related to quantitative data extracted from the Web pages, but also to qualitative properties, mainly of the page links.We consider, for instance, the ability of a search engine to find, using information provided by the page for a given link, the page that the link actually points at. This can be regarded as indicative of the link reliability. We also check the coherence between a page and another one pointed at by any of its links. Two pages linked by a hyperlink should be semantically related, by at least a weak contextual relation. Thus, we apply an LM approach to different sources of information from aWeb page that belongs to the context of a link, in order to provide high-quality indicators of Web spam. We have specifically applied the Kullback–Leibler divergence on different combinations of these sources of information in order to characterize the relationship between two linked pages. The result is a system that significantly improves the detection of Web spam using fewer features, on two large and public datasets such as WEBSPAM-UK2006 and WEBSPAM-UK2007.
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    Structure of morphologically expanded queries : a genetic algorithm approach
    (Elsevier, 2009-10-13) Zaragoza, Hugo; Pérez Agüera, José R.; Pérez Iglesias, Joaquín; Araujo Serna, M. Lourdes
    In this paper we deal with two issues. First, we discuss the negative effects of term correlation in query expansion algorithms, and we propose a novel and simple method (query clauses) to represent expanded queries which may alleviate some of these negative effects. Second, we discuss a method to optimize local query-expansion methods using genetic algorithms, and we apply this method to improve stemming. We evaluate this method with the novel query representation method and show very significant improvements for the problem of stemming optimization.