Incubating both researchers and ideas.

Web Understanding, Modeling, and Evaluation Lab

The WUME Lab houses a research group dedicated to studying the World Wide Web and the Internet. We are particularly interested in web search, link analysis models, search engine spam, and models of trust and authority. Although not our focus at present, we also have long-standing interests in infrastructure, architecture, measurement, mobility, and evaluation for the Internet and peer-to-peer networks. It is directed by Prof. Brian D. Davison and is a part of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University.

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The latest news from the WUME Lab:

When	What
29 September 2008	Dr. Lan Nie successfully defended her thesis and has graduated. She has since joined Yahoo!
18 August 2008	Our paper entitled Explorations in Tag Suggestion and Query Expansion by Jian Wang and Brian D. Davison has been accepted to CIKM 2008 Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2008).
6 May 2008	Our paper entitled Web Page Classification: Features and Algorithms by Xiaoguang Qi and Brian D. Davison has been accepted for publication in ACM Computing Surveys.
3 April 2008	Our papers entitled Classifiers without Borders: Incorporating Fielded Text from Neighboring Web Pages by Xiaoguang Qi and Brian D. Davison and Separate and Inequal: Preserving Heterogeneity in Topical Authority Flows by Lan Nie and Brian D. Davison have been accepted to SIGIR 2008.
25 March 2008	Our paper entitled Connecting P2P to the Web: Lessons from a Prototype Gnutella-WWW Gateway by Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang and Baoning Wu has been accepted for publication in Internet Research.
February 2008	A special section of ACM Transactions on the Web, edited by Marc Najork and Brian D. Davison, on Adversarial Issues in Web Search has been published.
30 April 2007	Our paper entitled From Whence Does Your Authority Come? Utilizing Community Relevance in Ranking by Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison and Baoning Wu has been accepted to AAAI 2007.
28 April 2007	Our posters entitled Winnowing Wheat from the Chaff: Propagating Trust to Sift Spam from the Web and Ranking by Community Relevance by Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison and Baoning Wu have been accepted to SIGIR 2007.