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The activity of labeling of documents according to their content is known as text categorization. Many experiments have been carried out to enhance text categorization by adding background knowledge to the document using knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-21 Sundus Hassan , Muhammad Rafi , Muhammad Shahid Shaikh

As a prominent instance of vandalism edits, Wiki search poisoning for illicit promotion is a cybercrime in which the adversary aims at editing Wiki articles to promote illicit businesses through Wiki search results of relevant queries. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zilong Lin , Zhengyi Li , Xiaojing Liao , XiaoFeng Wang , Xiaozhong Liu

Social media platforms such as Twitter are filled with social spambots. Detecting these malicious accounts is essential, yet challenging, as they continually evolve and evade traditional detection techniques. In this work, we propose VASSL,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Mosab Khayat , Morteza Karimzadeh , Jieqiong Zhao , David S. Ebert

This paper presents an automated adversarial mechanism called WikipediaBot. WikipediaBot allows an adversary to create and control a bot infrastructure for the purpose of adversarial edits of Wikipedia articles. The WikipediaBot is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Filipo Sharevski , Peter Jachim

Using deep learning for different machine learning tasks such as image classification and word embedding has recently gained many attentions. Its appealing performance reported across specific Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Ehsan Sherkat , Evangelos Milios

The security of modern JavaScript (JS) engines is critical since they provide the primary defense mechanism for executing untrusted code on the web. The recent integration of WebAssembly (Wasm) has transformed these engines into complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Lingming Zhang , Binbin Zhao , Puzhuo Liu , Qinge Xie , Peng Di , Jianhai Chen , Shouling Ji

Wikipedia can easily be justified as a behemoth, considering the sheer volume of content that is added or removed every minute to its several projects. This creates an immense scope, in the field of natural language processing towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Soumya Sarkar , Bhanu Prakash Reddy , Sandipan Sikdar , Animesh Mukherjee

Wiki articles are created and maintained by a crowd of editors, producing a continuous stream of reviews. Reviews can take the form of additions, reverts, or both. This crowdsourcing model is exposed to manipulation since neither reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Silvia García Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan Carlos Burguillo Rial

Stance detection infers a text author's attitude towards a target. This is challenging when the model lacks background knowledge about the target. Here, we show how background knowledge from Wikipedia can help enhance the performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Zihao He , Negar Mokhberian , Kristina Lerman

Software Engineering researchers are increasingly using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to automate Software Vulnerabilities (SVs) assessment using the descriptions in public repositories. However, the existing NLP-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Triet H. M. Le , Bushra Sabir , M. Ali Babar

For more than a decade now, academicians and online platform administrators have been studying solutions to the problem of bot detection. Bots are computer algorithms whose use is far from being benign: malicious bots are purposely created…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Rocco De Nicola , Marinella Petrocchi , Manuel Pratelli

In today's digital world, the generation of vast amounts of streaming data in various domains has become ubiquitous. However, many of these data are unlabeled, making it challenging to identify events, particularly anomalies. This task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jin Li , Kleanthis Malialis , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

Fuzzing is a technique of finding bugs by executing a software recurrently with a large number of abnormal inputs. Most of the existing fuzzers consider all parts of a software equally, and pay too much attention on how to improve the code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Yuwei Li , Shouling Ji , Chenyang Lv , Yuan Chen , Jianhai Chen , Qinchen Gu , Chunming Wu

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks identify the websites visited over anonymized connections by analyzing patterns in network traffic flows, such as packet sizes, directions, or interval times using a machine learning classifier. Previous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chuxu Song , Zining Fan , Hao Wang , Richard Martin

Video anomaly detection (VAD) has rapidly advanced by recent development of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). While these models offer superior zero-shot detection capabilities, their immense computational cost and unstable visual grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yue Zheng , Xiufang Shi , Jiming Chen , Yuanchao Shu

To address the risks of encountering inappropriate or harmful content, researchers managed to incorporate several harmful contents datasets with machine learning methods to detect harmful concepts. However, existing harmful datasets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Chen Yeh , You-Ming Chang , Wei-Chen Chiu , Ning Yu

In this paper, we describe our approach to the Wikipedia Participation Challenge which aims to predict the number of edits a Wikipedia editor will make in the next 5 months. The best submission from our team, "zeditor", achieved 41.7%…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-10-25 Dell Zhang

As free online encyclopedias with massive volumes of content, Wikipedia and Wikidata are key to many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as information retrieval, knowledge base building, machine translation, text classification,…

Image logs are crucial in capturing high-quality geological information about subsurface formations. Among the various geological features that can be gleaned from Formation Micro Imager log, vugs are essential for reservoir evaluation.…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 M. Quamer Nasim , T. Maiti , N. Mosavat , P. V. Grech , T. Singh , P. Nath Singha Roy

Cultural context profoundly shapes how people interpret online content, yet vision-language models (VLMs) remain predominantly trained through Western or English-centric lenses. This limits their fairness and cross-cultural robustness in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mo Wang , Kaixuan Ren , Pratik Jalan , Ahmed Ashraf , Tuong Vy Vu , Rahul Seetharaman , Shah Nawaz , Usman Naseem