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
3 February 2010	All WUME members (along with NYU Poly people) organized and ran the WSDM 2010 Conference
4 November 2009	Prof. Davison presented our poster entitled Vetting the Links of the Web at CIKM 2009.
30 August 2009	Liangjie Hong presented our paper entitled Incorporating Participant Reputation in Community-driven Question Answering Systems at SIN09.
21 August 2009	Dawei Yin presented some of our work on Choosing your own adventure: Automatic taxonomy expansion to permit many paths at MOPTA 2009.
23 July 2009	Liangjie Hong presented our paper on A Classification-based Approach to Question Answering in Discussion Boards at SIGIR 2009.
23 July 2009	Jian Wang presented our poster entitled Counting Ancestors to Estimate Authority at SIGIR 2009.
4 May 2009	Prof. Davison gave a talk on "Searching Archival Webs Efficiently and Effectively" to the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly in Ottawa.
21 April 2009	Prof. Davison presented his AIRWeb 2009 Keynote on The Potential for Research and Development in Adversarial Information Retrieval.
21 April 2009	Na Dai presented our paper on Looking into the Past to Better Classify Web Spam at AIRWeb 2009.