Users of online communities are commonly classified into active members versus lurkers. In this work we experiment with a method designed to encourage lurkers to share their acqui...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
In many collaborative systems, researchers are interested in creating representative user profiles. In this paper, we are particularly interested in using social labeling and auto...
Given a set of reviews of products or merchants from a wide range of authors and several reviews websites, how can we measure the true quality of the product or merchant? How do w...
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
Personal photos and their associated metadata reveal different aspects of our lives and, when shared online, let others have an idea about us. Automating the extraction of persona...