ACM Transactions on the Web

In the context of social media, the integrity of images is often dubious. To tackle this challenge, we introduce Exif2Vec, a novel framework specifically designed to discover modifications in social media images. The proposed framework leverages an image’...

Influence maximization is a fundamental problem in social network analysis. This problem refers to the identification of a set of influential users as initial spreaders to maximize the spread of a message in a network. When such a message is spread, some ...

We observe a recent trend toward applying large language models (LLMs) in search and positioning them as effective information access systems. While the interfaces may look appealing and the apparent breadth of applicability is exciting, we are concerned ...

The emergence of online media has facilitated the dissemination of news, but has also introduced the problem of information overload. To address this issue, providing users with accurate and diverse news recommendations has become increasingly important. ...

While social media platforms play an important role in our daily lives in obtaining the latest news and trends from across the globe, they are known to be prone to widespread proliferation of harmful information in different forms leading to ...

In this article, we present a novel approach to quantitative evaluation of a model for parsing web pages as visual images, intended to provide improvements for users with assistive needs (cognitive or visual deficits, enabling decluttering or zooming and ...

Internet users possess accounts on dozens of online services where they are often identified by one of their e-mail addresses. They often use the same address on multiple services and for communicating with their contacts. In this paper, we investigate ...

Dynamic multimodal networks are networks with node attributes from different modalities where the attributes and network relationships evolve across time, i.e., both networks and multimodal attributes are dynamic; for example, dynamic relationship ...

Recently, Google proposed the Topics API framework as a privacy-friendly alternative for behavioural advertising as a possible solution to balance user’s privacy and advertisement effectiveness. Using the Topics API, the browser builds a user profile ...

Dealing with many of the problems related to the quality of textual content online involves identifying similar content. Algorithmic solutions for duplicate content classification typically rely on text vector representation, which maps textual ...