Abstract Microblogging is a form of online communication by which users broadcast brief text updates, also known as tweets, to the public or a selected circle of contacts. A varieg...
Twitter is a new web application playing dual roles of online social networking and micro-blogging. Users communicate with each other by publishing text-based posts. The popularit...
Zi Chu, Steven Gianvecchio, Haining Wang, Sushil J...
While existing studies on YouTube’s massive user-generated video content have mostly focused on the analysis of videos, their characteristics, and network properties, little att...
There is a growing research interest in opinion retrieval as on-line users' opinions are becoming more and more popular in business, social networks, etc. Practically speakin...
Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...