Publications by Julia Proskurnia

Predicting the Success of Online Petitions Leveraging Multidimensional Time-Series

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Julia Proskurnia, Carlos Castillo

Applying classical time-series analysis techniques to online content is challenging, as web data tends to have data quality issues and is often incomplete, noisy, or poorly aligned. In this paper, we tackle the problem of predicting the evolution of a time ...

Efficient Document Filtering Using Vector Space Topic Expansion and Pattern-Mining: The Case of Event Detection in Microposts

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Julia Proskurnia, Carlos Castillo

Automatically extracting information from social media is challenging given that social content is often noisy, ambiguous, and inconsistent. However, as many stories break on social channels first before being picked up by mainstream media, developing meth ...

2017

Profiling, Modelling and Facilitating Online Activism

Julia Proskurnia

The extensive and successful use of social media has enhanced and empowered a variety of movements all over the world in a way that is hard to achieve through conventional means. This has led to numerous studies that leverage online social data to describe ...

EPFL2017

Template Induction over Unstructured Email Corpora

Julia Proskurnia

Unsupervised template induction over email data is a central component in applications such as information extraction, document classification, and auto-reply. The benefits of automatically generating such templates are known for structured data, e.g. mach ...

Analyzing Large-Scale Public Campaigns on Twitter

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Roman Prokofyev, Julia Proskurnia

Social media has become an important instrument for running various types of public campaigns and mobilizing people. Yet, the dynamics of public campaigns on social networking platforms still remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we present an in-depth ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

Please Sign to Save... : How Online Environmental Petitions Succeed

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Julia Proskurnia

Social media have become one of the key platforms to support the debate on climate change. In particular, Twitter allows easy information dissemination when running environmental campaigns. Yet, the dynamics of these campaigns on social platforms still rem ...

AAAI Press2016

A simulation-optimization approach to deploy Internet services in large-scale systems with user-provided resources

Julia Proskurnia

Cloud computing systems can benefit from the use of personal and non-dedicated computers, which are currently employed in volunteer computing systems. Being non-dedicated, these resources show random behavior regarding the times they are online (available) ...

Sage Publications Ltd2014