The explosion of user-generated content on the Web has led to new opportunities and significant challenges for companies, that are increasingly concerned about monitoring the disc...
In this paper, we attempt to specify the influencer and the influential terms in consumer package goods by using the influence diffusion model (IDM). IDM calculates the spread of ...
This paper describes our opinion retrieval system for TREC 2008 blog track. We focused on five different aspects of the system. The first module is focussed on extracting the blog...
The attention economy motivates participation in peerproduced sites on the Web like YouTube and Wikipedia. However, this economy appears to break down at work. We studied a large ...
Sarita Yardi, Scott A. Golder, Michael J. Brzozows...
With an increasing number of people that read, write and comment on blogs, the blogosphere has established itself as an essential medium of communication. A fundamental characteri...