An analysis of the social video sharing platform YouTube reveals a high amount of community feedback through comments for published videos as well as through meta ratings for thes...
Stefan Siersdorfer, Sergiu Chelaru, Wolfgang Nejdl...
For many supervised learning problems, we possess prior knowledge about which features yield similar information about the target variable. In predicting the topic of a document, ...
Ted Sandler, John Blitzer, Partha Pratim Talukdar,...
Domain adaptation is a fundamental learning problem where one wishes to use labeled data from one or several source domains to learn a hypothesis performing well on a different, y...
In this paper we propose a new approach to capture the inclination towards a certain election candidate from the contents of blogs and to explain why that inclination may be so. T...
The paper presents methods of retrieving blog posts containing opinions about an entity expressed in the query. The methods use a lexicon of subjective words and phrases compiled ...