In this paper we aim to model the relationship between the text of a political blog post and the comment volume--that is, the total amount of response--that a post will receive. W...
Quickly moving to a new area of research is painful for researchers due to the vast amount of scientific literature in each field of study. One possible way to overcome this probl...
Abstract. User generated content in general, and blogs in particular, form an interesting and relatively little explored domain for mining knowledge. We address the task of blog di...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
This paper introduces a novel probabilistic activity modeling approach that mines recurrent sequential patterns from documents given as word-time occurrences. In this model, docum...
Mixture models form one of the most widely used classes of generative models for describing structured and clustered data. In this paper we develop a new approach for the analysis...