I'm a Post Doctoral Researcher, with the Integrated Systems group at Microsoft Research Cambridge since January 2006. My research interests lie in the broad areas of data mining and web information retrieval. In particular, my current work is focused on social network analysis, online communities, web link analysis and text mining.
I obtained the Licenciatura degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London, UK in 2005.
Prior joining Microsoft Research, I was a Research Fellow at the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University College London, working on Web and Grid services for large-scale data analysis. Before initating my Ph.D. studies, I was a research engineer at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC Porto), Portugal, working on distributed systems and multimedia applications.
Projects
Web Link Analysis
InSite Live is focused on modelling the Web link structure, with the aim of improving search and navigation of Web sites. We have developed a tool for visualizing Web site structure that identifies sub-sites within a site and displays the topics they cover in order to assist users in finding pages of interest.
Online Communities and Social Networks
Social Footprints is focused on the analysis of social interactions in online communities and mining community-generated content.Recent research addressed analysis of social tagging behaviour and message types in Q&A communities.
NodeXL is an interactive graph analysis and visualization toolkit for Excel 2007 that is focused on supporting the study of the social networks, social media and other network structures. The toolkit is available for download from Codeplex.
Community Buzz was initiated as a collaborative effort with the Community Technology Group at MSR Redmond. It involved expansion of the MSR NetScan service that comprised analysis of user interactions and content exchanged among participants of the online discussions groups.
Personal Information Management
Research Desktop addresses the conceptual design of a desktop environment that augments the standard desktop with concepts and designs that enable new ways of working and managing resources. It provides support in four key areas: Activities, Tools, Library and Notes.
- Marc Smith, Ben Shneiderman, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Vladimir Barash, Cody Dunne, Tony Capone, Adam Perer, and Eric Gleave, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL, in The 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, June 2009
- Gerard Oleksik, Max L. Wilson, Craig Tashman, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Gabriella Kazai, Gavin Smyth, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Rachel Jones, Lightweight Tagging Expands Information and Activity Management Practices, in Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2009
- Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Blaz Fortuna, Social Tagging Behaviour in Community-driven Question Answering, in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2008, December 2008
- Blaz Fortuna, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, and Natasa Milic-Frayling, Improving the Classification of Newsgroup Messages through Social Network analysis, in Proceedings of ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007, November 2007
- Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Blaz Fortuna, Detection of Web Subsites: Concepts, Algorithms, and Evaluation Issues, in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2007, November 2007
- Natasa Milic-Frayling, Rachel Jones, and Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, User Study of Interconnection among Communication, Authoring, and Information Management Processes, no. MSR-TR-2006-96, June 2006
- Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Martin Hicks, and Gavin Smyth, Link Structure Graphs for Representing and Analyzing Web Sites, no. MSR-TR-2006-94, June 2006
CURRENT PROJECTS
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