In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...
Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities. A critical problem in a crisis situation is how t...
Li Zheng, Chao Shen, Liang Tang, Tao Li, Steven Lu...
Online communities have become popular for publishing and searching content, as well as for finding and connecting to other users. User-generated content includes, for example, pe...
Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebast...
Many social Web sites allow users to annotate the content with descriptive metadata, such as tags, and more recently to organize content hierarchically. These types of structured ...
Anon Plangprasopchok, Kristina Lerman, Lise Getoor
This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...