The debate within the Web community over the optimal means by which to organize information often pits formalized classifications against distributed collaborative tagging systems...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
The Web graph is a giant social network whose properties have been measured and modeled extensively in recent years. Most such studies concentrate on the graph structure alone, an...