| To exploit social Web applications for advancing navigation, recommendation, system design, and search. Other interests include social networks, information visualization, visual analytics, and all things Web. bmarkine (at) cs (dot) indiana (dot) edu Address: I2 (Informatics East) 302 919 East Tenth St. Bloomington, IN 47408 CV A barely more formal bio: I received my Ph.D. in May 2009 from the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington. My research interests are in Web 2.0, tagging systems, Web mining and network analysis. My dissertation discusses the discovery of relationships among tags and resources mined from collaborative tagging systems. These relationships in turn lead to improved recommendation, navigation, and spam detection on the World Wide Web. Before pursuing my Ph.D., I worked as an IBM software engineer developing various applications. Currently I am on an educational leave of absence from Big Blue. I received my B.S. and M.S. from the Department of Computer Science at Northern Illinois University. |
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Publications
B. Markines, C. Cattuto, F. Menczer, D. Benz, A. Hotho, G. Stumme. Evaluating Similarity Measures for Emergent Semantics of Social Tagging. Proc. WWW 2009 [presentation]B. Markines, C. Cattuto, F. Menczer. Social Spam Detection. Proc. AIRWEB 2009 [web site]
B. Markines. Socially Induced Semantic Networks and Applications. Indiana University Computer Science Technical Report TR676. July, 2008. (thesis)
H. Roinestad, J. Burgoon, B. Markines, F. Menczer. Incentives for Social Annotation. To appear in Proc. of SIGIR 2009 Demonstrations
B. Markines, F. Menczer. A Scalable, Collaborative Similarity Measure for Social Annotation Systems. To appear in Poster Proc. HT 2009
B. Markines. Socially Induced Semantic Networks and Applications. Indiana University Computer Science Technical Report TR676. July, 2008. (thesis)
H. Roinestad, J. Burgoon, B. Markines, F. Menczer. Incentives for Social Annotation. To appear in Proc. of SIGIR 2009 Demonstrations
B. Markines, F. Menczer. A Scalable, Collaborative Similarity Measure for Social Annotation Systems. To appear in Poster Proc. HT 2009
H. Roinestad, J. Burgoon, B. Markines, F. Menczer. Incentives for Social Annotation. To appear in Poster Proc. HT 2009
B. Markines, H. Roinestad, F. Menczer. Efficient Assembly of Social Semantic Networks. Proc. HT 2008 (nominated for best paper award)
J. Donaldson, M. Conover, B. Markines, H. Roinestad, F. Menczer. Visualizing Social Links in Exploratory Search. Proc. HT 2008
W. Huang, K. Borner, B. Herr, and B. Markines. Cyberinfrastructure Shell (CIShell): An OSGi-Based Framework for the Integration of Datasets and Algorithms. EclipseCON 2007, Santa Clara, California
B. Markines, L. Stoilova, and F. Menczer. GiveALink: A Social Recommendation System. Proc. NetSci Conference 2006, Bloomington, Indiana
B. Markines, L. Stoilova, F. Menczer. Bookmark Hierarchies and Collaborative Recommendation. Final version in Proc. AAAI 2006
B. Markines, L. Stoilova, F. Menczer. Implicit Tagging using Donated Bookmarks. Proc. WWW2006 Workshop on Collaborative Web Tagging, 2006
L. Stoilova, T. Holloway, B. Markines, A. Maguitman, F. Menczer. GiveALink: Mining a Semantic Network of Bookmarks for Web Search and Recommendation. Proc. KDD Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues, Approaches and Applications (LinkKDD-2005)
Research
My thesis advisor Fil Menczer is also the leader of the NaN group. Thank you for all your help Fil! My pet project is:
Help us out and donate/import your bookmarks?
We just finished submitting a paper to AIRWEB 2009 titled "Social Spam Detection" with some very promising results. Check it out!
So I was funded by a generous NSF grant through Fil. He might deny it, but I swear I helped him get it :).