Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues

Assistant Professor

Publications

Book Chapters

  • Mendes Rodrigues, E., Milic-Frayling, N. Flickr: Linking people, photos and tags. In: Hensen, D., Shneiderman, B., Smith, M. Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0-12-382229-1.  Try out NodeXL with the Flickr data.
  • Mendes, M.E.S. and Sacks, L. Dynamic Knowledge Representation for e-Learning Applications. In: M. Nikravesh, L.A. Zadeh, B. Azvin and R. Yager (Eds.), Enhancing the Power of the Internet - Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Springer, vol. 139, pp. 255-278, January 2004. ISBN: 3-540-20237-4.

Conference Papers

  • Bosnjak, M. Oliveira, E., Martins, J., Sarmento L. and Mendes Rodrigues, E., TwitterEcho - A Distributed Focused Crawler to Support Open Research with Twitter Data. Proc. of the Intl. Workshop on Social Media Applications in News and Entertainment (SMANE 2012), at the ACM 2012 International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2012, April 2012, Lyon, France.
  • Teixeira, V., Pires, C., Pinto, F., Freitas, J., Sales Dias, M. and Mendes Rodrigues, E., Towards Elderly Social Integration using a Multimodal Human-computer Interface. Proc. of the 2nd International Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications, AAL 2012, Jan. 2012.
  • Mendes Rodrigues, E., Milic-Frayling, N., Smith, M., Shneiderman, B., Hensen, D., Group-In-a-Box Layout for Multi-faceted Analysis of Communities, Proc. of the Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, IEEE SocialCom 2011, Oct. 2011.
  • Sousa, T.B., Tenreiro, P., Silva, P.A., Mendes Rodrigues, E. Storytelling meets the SocialWeb: an HTML5 cross-platform application for older adults, Proc. of the 13th IFIP Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2011, Sep. 2011. (Demo paper)
  • Pires, C., Pinto, F., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Sales Dias, M. On the benefits of speech and touch interaction with communication services for mobility impaired users. Proc. of the 1st International Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications, AAL 2011, Jan. 2011.
  • Sousa, D., Sarmento, L., Mendes Rodrigues, E. Characterization of the Twitter @replies Network: are user ties social or topical? Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC 2010), at the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010, Oct. 2010.
  • Pires, C., Pinto, F., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Sales Dias, M. Improving the Social Inclusion of Mobility Impaired Users. Proc. of the Social Mobile Web 2010 Workshop, at the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2010, Sep. 2010.
  • Zheleva, E., Guiver, J., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Milic-Frayling, N. Statistical Models of Music-listening Sessions in Social Media. Proc. of the ACM 19th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2010, Apr. 2010.
  • Mendes Rodrigues, E. and Milic-Frayling, N. Socializing or Knowledge Sharing? Characterizing Social Intent in Community Question Answering. Proc. of ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Nov. 2009.
  • Lee, C.T., Vinay, V., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Kazai, G., Milic-Frayling, N., Ignjatovic, A. Measuring system performance and topic discernment using generalized adaptive-weight mean. Proc. of ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2009, Nov. 2009.
  • Lee, C.T., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Kazai, G., Milic-Frayling, N., Ignjatovic, A. Model for Voter Scoring and Best Answer Selection in Community Q&A Services. Proc. of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2009, Sep. 2009.
  • Smith, M., Shneiderman, B., Milic-Frayling, N., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Barash, V., Dunne, C., Capone, T., Perer, A. and Gleave, E. Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL. Proc. of the 4th Intl. Conf. on Communities and Technologies, Penn State Univ., PA, USA, Jun. 2009.
  • Mendes Rodrigues, E. Mining Online communities. Proc. of the UK Symposium on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining 2009, Salford, UK, April 2009 (Invited Paper).
  • Oleksik, G., Wilson, M.L., Tashman, C., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Kazai, G., Smyth, G., Milic-Frayling, N. and Jones, R. Lightweight Tagging Expands Information and Activity Management Practices, Proc. of the ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, USA, Apr. 2009.
  • Mendes Rodrigues, E., Milic-Frayling and N., Fortuna, B. Social Tagging Behaviour in Community-driven Question Answering, Proc. of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2008, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2008.
  • Mendes Rodrigues, E., Milic-Frayling, N. and Fortuna, B. Detection of Web Subsites: Concepts, Algorithms, and Evaluation Issues, Proc. of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2007, Silicon Valley, CA, USA, Nov. 2007.
  • Fortuna, B., Mendes Rodrigues, E. and Milic-Frayling, N., Improving the Classification of Newsgroup Messages through Social Network Analysis, in Proceedings of ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Lisbon, Portugal, CIKM’07, Nov. 2007.
  • Mendes Rodrigues, E. and Sacks, L. Learning Topic Hierarchies from Text Documents using a Scalable Hierarchical Fuzzy Clustering Method, Proc. of the 5th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI2005, London, September 2005 (Invited Paper).
  • Haddadi, H., Mendes Rodrigues, E. and Sacks, L.E. Development of a Monitoring and Measurement Platform for UKLight High-Capacity Network, Proc. of PREP2005, Postgraduate Research Conference in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Networks, and Computing Science, University of Lancaster, UK, March-April 2005.
  • Haddadi, H., Mendes Rodrigues, E. and Sacks, L.E. Applications of GridProbe Technology for Traffic Monitoring on High-Capacity Backbone Networks, Data-Link Layer Simulation Approach. Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networking, IEEE INFOCOM 2005, Student Workshop, Miami, Florida, USA, March 2005.
  • Mendes Rodrigues, M.E.S. and Sacks, L. A scalable hierarchical fuzzy clustering algorithm for text mining, Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, RASC'2004, pp. 269-274, Nottingham, UK, December 2004.
  • Mendes, M.E.S., Jarrett, W., Prnjat, O. and Sacks, L. Flexible Searching and Browsing for Telecoms Learning Material, Proc. of the 2003 International Symposium on Telecommunications, IST'2003, Isfahan, Iran, August 2003.
  • Mendes, M.E.S. and Sacks, L. Evaluating fuzzy clustering for relevance-based information access, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE'2003, pp. 648-653, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, May 2003. (Awarded UCL Graduate School Major Award)
  • Mendes, M.E.S., Martinez, E. and Sacks, L. Knowledge-based Content Navigation in e-Learning Applications, Proc. of the 2002 London Communications Symposium, LCS'2002, London, UK, September 2002.
  • Sacks, L., Earle, A., Prnjat, O., Jarrett, W. and Mendes, M. Supporting Variable Pedagogical Models in Network Based Learning Environments, Proc. of the IEE 2nd Annual Symposium on Engineering Education: Professional Engineering Scenarios, vol. 1, pp. 22/1-22/6, London, UK, January 2002.
  • Mendes, M.E.S. and Sacks, L. From Metadata to Fuzzy Knowledge Representation, Proc. of the 2001 London Communications Symposium, LCS'2001, London, UK, September 2001.
  • Mendes, M.E.S. and Sacks, L. Dynamic Knowledge Representation for e-Learning Applications. Proc. of the 2001 BISC International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet, FLINT'2001, Memorandum No. UCB/ERL M01/28, University of California Berkeley, pp. 176-181, August 2001. (Awarded UCL Graduate School Major Award)
  • Mendes, M.E.S. and Sacks, L. Assessment of the Performance of Fuzzy Cluster Analysis in the Classification of RFC Documents, Proc. of the 2000 London Communications Symposium, LCS'2000, London, UK, September 2000.
  • Oliveira, J., Carrapatoso, E., Moreira, R. and Mendes, E. Development of a distributed digital library: from specification to code generation, Proc. of the Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores, JETC’99, Lisbon, Portugal, October 1999.

Patent Applications

  • Zheleva, E., Guiver, J., Milic-Frayling, N., Mendes Rodrigues, E.Session Based Recommendations in a Collaborative Media Environment. US Patent Application, filed in June 2010.
  • Milic-Frayling, N., Smyth, G., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Kazai, G. Rich-Context Tagging of Resources. US Patent Application, filed in December 2008.
  • Milic-Frayling, N., Mendes Rodrigues, E. and Pandit, S. Web Site Structure Analysis and Representation Model. US Patent Application No. 11/566,837, filed in December 2006.

Technical Reports

  • Derek Hansen, Dana Rotman, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Marc Smith, Ben Shneiderman. Do You Know the Way to SNA?: A Process Model for Analyzing and Visualizing Social Media Data. HCI Lab, University of Maryland, HCIL-2009-17, 2009.
  • Milic-Frayling, N., Jones, R. and Mendes Rodrigues, E. User Study of Interconnection among Communication, Authoring, and Information Management Processes, Microsoft Research Technical Report no. MSR-TR-2006-96, Microsoft Research, June 2006.
  • Mendes Rodrigues, E., Milic-Frayling, N., Hicks M. and Smyth, G. Link Structure Graphs for Representing and Analyzing Web Sites. Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-94, Microsoft Research, June 2006.

Thesis

  • Silva Mendes Rodrigues, M.E. Development of Novel Fuzzy Clustering Techniques in the Context of e-Learning. PhD Thesis, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, UK, November 2004.