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Estimating the Causal Impact of Recommendation Systems from Observational Data

Amit Sharma, Jake Hofman, Duncan Watts

Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation | June 2015

ISBN: 978-1-4503-3410-5

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More on Improving Reviewing Quality with Double-Blind Reviewing, External Review Committees, Author Response, and in Person Program Committee Meetings

Kathryn S McKinley

June 2015

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Conversation Analysis of Video-Mediated Communication: Interactional Repair of Distortion in Long-Distance Couples’ Video Calls

Sean Rintel

June 2015

Rintel, S. (2015). Conversation Analysis of Video-Mediated Communication: Interactional Repair of Distortion in Long-Distance Couples’ Video Calls. Sage Research Methods. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473947481

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Language Understanding in the Wild: Combining Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning

Edwin Simpson, Matteo Venanzi, Steven Reece, Pushmeet Kohli, John Guiver, Stephen J. Roberts, Nicholas R. Jennings

WWW ’15 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web | May 2015

ISBN: 978-1-4503-3469-3

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Events and Controversies: Influences of a Shocking News Event on Information Seeking

Danai Koutra, Paul N. Bennett, Eric Horvitz

Proceedings of the 24th Annual International World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’15) (This paper revises and extends work in TAIA Workshop at SIGIR 2014 and arXiv:1405.1486.) | May 2015

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A Game Theoretic Model for the Formation of Navigable Small-world Networks

Zhi Yang, Wei Chen

In Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’2015), Florence, Italy, May, 2015. | May 2015

ISBN: ACM 978-1-4503-3469-3/15/05.

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Revisiting CGNet Swara and its Impact in Rural India

Meghana Marathe, Jacki O'Neill, Paromita Pain, William Thies, Bill Thies

May 2015

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Cues, quantification, and agreement in language comprehension

Darren Tanner, Nyssa Z. Bulkes

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | May 2015, Vol 22: pp. 1753-1763

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The Activity Platform

Helen Wang, Alexander Moshchuk, Michael Gamon, Mona Haraty, Shamsi Iqbal, Eli T. Brown, Ashish Kapoor, Chris Meek, Eric Chen, Yuan Tian, Jaime Teevan, Mary Czerwinski, Susan Dumais

USENIX 15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XV) | May 2015

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Social Media, Financial Algorithms and the Hack Crash

Tero Karppi, Kate Crawford

Theory Culture & Society | May 2015