From Michael G. Noll

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

Contents 1 Academic Papers & Publications 2 Talks & Presentations 3 Selected Press Coverage 4 Research data sets 5 Tutorials

Academic Papers & Publications

• SPEAR: Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking in Collaborative Tagging Systems
  C.-M. Au Yeung, M. G. Noll, N. Gibbins, C. Meinel, N. Shadbolt
  International Journal of Computational Intelligence, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 (to appear) (Impact Factor: 3.31)
  
  
• 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)
  » Read the Technology Review article on this work
  (Acceptance Rate: 16%, 78/494)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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 (best paper award)
  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
  (freely translated: "Lock-Keeper - double data throughput at half runtime")
  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
  (translated: "Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems: Technologies and Products")
  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
  (freely translated: "Lock-Keeper - a patented lock-based technology for meeting the highest demands in network security")
  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:

• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies
  Presentation at the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Boston, USA, July 2009
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies
  Talk at W3C group, MIT, 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)
• How SPEAR Identifies Domain Experts within Delicious, 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 20 blogs worldwide and one of the best blogs 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, featuring external feedback by 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

In my PhD project, I use Hadoop quite a lot. Hadoop is a Yahoo-sponsored open source framework for distributed computing and data storage, similar to Google MapReduce and Google File System. Here are some tutorials to get you started.

• Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python, September 2007 - now
• Running Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux (Multi-Node Cluster), August 2007 - now
• Running Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux (Single-Node Cluster), August 2007 - now