Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
This paper presents our system and results for the Feed Distillation task in the Blog track at TREC 2007. Our experiments focus on two dimensions of the task: (1) a large-document...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, J...
We present a model of evolution of large social networks. Our model is based on the local nature of communication: a node's communication energy is spend mostly within it'...
Mark K. Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Stephen Kel...
This paper presents preliminary results on the detection of cultural differences from people's experiences in various countries from two perspectives: tourists and locals. Ou...
This paper defines a concept of trust incident accounts as verbal reports of empirical episodes in which a trustor has reached a state of positive or negative expectations of a tr...