Here is an overview of my scientific papers, articles and other published documents.

Academic Papers & Publications

• SPEAR: Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking in Collaborative Tagging Systems (ask me for a free copy)
  C.-M. Au Yeung, M. G. Noll, N. Gibbins, C. Meinel, N. Shadbolt
  International Journal of Computational Intelligence, Wiley-Blackwell, Volume 27, Issue No. 3, 2011 (Impact Factor: 3.31)
• Measuring Expertise in Online Communities
  C.-M. Au Yeung, M. G. Noll, N. Gibbins, C. Meinel, N. Shadbolt
  IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 26, Issue No. 1, January/February 2011, pp. 26-32, ISSN 1541-1672 (BibTeX)
• Understanding and Leveraging the Social Web for Information Retrieval (Ph.D. Thesis)
  M. G. Noll
  Ph.D. thesis, submitted in the context of a cotutelle de thèse at both the Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany, and the University of Luxembourg, April 2010
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies
  M. G. Noll, C.-M. Au Yeung, N. Gibbins, C. Meinel, N. Shadbolt
  SIGIR ‘09: Proceedings of 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, USA, July 2009, pp. 612-619, ISBN 978-1-60558-483-6 (ACM Link, BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 16%, 78/494)
  Read the Technology Review article on this work »
• On Measuring Expertise in Collaborative Tagging Systems
  C.-M. Au Yeung, M. G. Noll, N. Gibbins, C. Meinel, N. Shadbolt
  WebSci ‘09: Proceedings of 1st Web Science Conference, Athens, Greece, March 2009 (BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 16%)
• Writing a Personal Link Recommendation Engine
  M. G. Noll
  Python Magazine, Volume 3(2), February 2009, ISSN 1913-6714
• The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  WI ‘08: Proceedings of 7th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, IEEE CS Press, Sydney, Australia, December 2008, pp. 640-647, ISBN 978-0-7695-3496-1 (IEEE Link, BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 19%)
• Building a Scalable Collaborative Web Filter with Free and Open Source Software
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  SITIS ‘08: Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-based Systems, IEEE CS Press, Bali, Indonesia, November 2008, pp. 563-571, ISBN 978-0-7695-3493-0 (IEEE Link, BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 33%)
• Exploring Social Annotations for Web Document Classification
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  SAC ‘08: Proceedings of 23rd International ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 2008, pp. 2315-2320, ISBN 978-1-59593-753-7 (ACM Link, BibTeX)
  (Impact Factor: 0.85)
• Web Search Personalization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  ISWC ‘07: Proceedings of 6th International Semantic Web Conference & 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, Springer LNCS 4825, Busan, South Korea, November 2007, pp. 367-380, ISBN 978-3-540-76297-3 (SpringerLink, BibTeX)
  (Acceptance Rate: 19%, 50/255)
• Authors vs. Readers: A Comparative Study of Document Metadata and Content in the WWW
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  DocEng ‘07: Proceedings of 7th International ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Winnipeg, Canada, August 2007, pp. 177-186, ISBN 978-1-59593-776-6 (ACM Link, BibTeX)
• Design and Anatomy of a Social Web Filtering Service
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  CIC ‘06: Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing, Hong Kong, October 2006, pp. 35-44, ISBN 978-981-281-109-7 (WSP Link, BibTeX)
• Web Page Classification: An Exploratory Study of Internet Content Rating Systems
  M. G. Noll, C. Meinel
  HACK ‘05: Proceedings of HACK conference, Luxembourg, October 2005, ISBN 978-2-9599708-0-1 (BibTeX)
• Evaluation of Content Management Systems (Diploma/Master Thesis)
  M. G. Noll
  University of Trier, Trier, Germany, 2004
• Die Lock-Keeper Architektur
  C. Meinel, T. Engel, E.-G. Haffner, G. Müllenheim, M. G. Noll, T. Wagner
  IT-Services/Institut für Telematik, Trier/Luxembourg, 2003
• Lock-Keeper - doppelter Datendurchsatz bei halber Laufzeit
  M. G. Noll, T. Wagner
  In: C. Meinel (eds.): “Tätigkeitsbericht 2002 des Institut für Telematik”, Trier, Germany, 2003
• Firewalls und Intrusion-Detection-Systeme: Technologien und Produkte
  M. Schmitt, M. G. Noll, G. Müllenheim, B. Lentes, M. Vieten, T. Engel, C. Meinel
  Study for the German Ministry of Science, Education, Research, and Culture, Institut für Telematik, Trier, Germany, 2002
• Lock-Keeper - eine patentierte Schleusen-Technologie für höchste Sicherheitsansprüche
  C. Meinel, G. Müllenheim, M. G. Noll, T. Wagner
  In: Meinel, C. (eds.): “Tätigkeitsbericht 2001 des Institut für Telematik”, Trier, Germany, 2002

Talks & Presentations

I have been a speaker at international scientific conferences, research seminars and workshops such as:

• Practical Pig and Pig Unit
  Talk at Swiss Big Data User Group, ETH Zurich, July 2012
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies Talk at Decentralized Information Group, CSAIL, MIT, Boston, USA, July 2009
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies Presentation at the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Boston, USA, July 2009
• Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking in the Social Web Research seminar, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, Luxembourg, May 2009
• Teaching Programming with Python Invited talk, Lycée Technique des Arts et Métiers, Luxembourg, April 2009
• On Measuring Expertise in Collaborative Tagging Systems Presentation at the Web Science Conference ‘09 (WebSci), Athens, Greece, March 2009
• The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries Presentation at the 7th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Sydney, Australia, December 2008
• Building a Scalable Collaborative Web Filter with Free and Open Source Software Presentation at the 4th IEEE International Conference Signal-Image Technology & Internet-based Systems (SITIS), Bali, Indonesia, November 2008
• The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries Research seminar, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, November 2008
• The Safer Internet Project Research seminar, University of Luxembourg/LIASIT, Luxembourg, May 2008
• Personalization 2.0: Web Search Personlization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging Research seminar, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, November 2007
• Web Search Personalization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging Presentation at 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) & 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC), Busan, South Korea, November 2007
• GooDiff: An Online Consumer Service for Monitoring Changes in Legal Documents BarCamp talk, HACK conference, Luxembourg, October 2007
• Web Search Personlization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging Research seminar, University of Luxembourg/LIASIT, Luxembourg, October 2007
• Authors vs. Readers: A Comparative Study of Document Metadata and Content in the WWW Presentation at 7th International ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng), Winnipeg, Canada, August 2007
• Safer Internet: Web (Filtering) 2.0 Research seminar, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, February 2007
• Design and Anatomy of a Social Web Filtering Service Presentation at CIC conference, Hong Kong, October 2006
• An Exploratory Study of Internet Content Rating Systems Presentation at HACK conference, Luxembourg, October 2005
• Safer Internet: Content Filtering for the WWW Research seminar, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, March 2005

Selected Press Coverage

• New Ranking Algorithm Separates Digital Wheat from Chaff, September 2009
  Article on Communications of the ACM (CACM) Online
• How SPEAR Identifies Domain Experts within Delicious (link is broken), August 2009
  Invited article for Yahoo!, published on the Delicious.com blog
• Finding Better Friends: Delicious and SPEAR, August 2009
  Article on ReadWriteWeb, one the Top blogs worldwide on Web technology
• Speer gegen Spam (German), August 2009
  Interview with 20 Minutes, the most popular daily newspaper in Switzerland
• A Better Way to Rank Expertise Online, July 2009
  Article by Technology Review (US), published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); the article features external feedback by the HITS ranking algorithm inventor Prof. Jon Kleinberg and others

Research Data Sets

• CABS120k08 (published 2008)
  Large research data set about Web metadata based on a sample of 120,000 web documents with data retrieved from the Open Directory Project, the AOL Search query log corpus AOL500k, Google PageRank, Delicious.com/Yahoo!, and anchor text from incoming hyperlinks
• DMOZ100k06 (published 2007)
  Large research data set about document metadata based on a random sample of 100,000 web documents from the Open Directory combined with data retrieved from Delicious.com/Yahoo!, Google, and ICRA.

Tutorials

See my separate Tutorials section.