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ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Preliminary Semantic Analysis of Political Blogs
In this paper, we present a series of semantic analyses of words in political blogs in the setting of categorization of two opposite political orientations: liberal vs. conservati...
Maojin Jiang, Shlomo Argamon
ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Recommendation of Multimedia Items by Link Analysis and Collaborative Filtering
We investigate two recommendation approaches suitable for online multimedia sharing services. Our first approach, UserRank, recommends items by global interestingness irrespective...
Davin Wong, Ella Bingham, Saara Hyvönen
ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Collecting and Analyzing Japanese Splogs based on Characteristics of Keywords
This paper focuses on analyzing (Japanese) splogs based on various characteristics of keywords contained in them. We estimate the behavior of spammers when creating splogs from ot...
Yuuki Sato, Takehito Utsuro, Tomohiro Fukuhara, Ya...
ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Clustering Tags in Enterprise and Web Folksonomies
Tags lack organizational structure limiting their utility for navigation. We present two clustering algorithms that improve this by organizing tags automatically. We apply the alg...
Edwin Simpson
ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Shallow Approach to Subjectivity Classification
We present a shallow linguistic approach to subjectivity classification. Using multinomial kernel machines, we demonstrate that a data representation based on counting character n...
Stephan Raaijmakers, Wessel Kraaij
ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Visualization of Social Interactions in Facebook
With the popularity of social networks such as Facebook, we have greatly extended our social interactions from the physical into the digital. With social networks we have an incre...
Takashi Okamoto, Kyle Buza
ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
International Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs
There is a growing interest in mining opinions using sentiment analysis methods from sources such as news, blogs and product reviews. Most of these methods have been developed for...
Mikhail Bautin, Lohit Vijayarenu, Steven Skiena
ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
While previous studies have used the Wikipedia dataset to provide an understanding of its growth, there have been few attempts to quantitatively analyze the establishment and evol...
Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean, David W. McDon...
ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Blog Link Classification
Blog links raise three key questions: Why did the author make the link, what exactly is he pointing at, and what does he feel about it? In response to these questions we introduce...
Justin Martineau, Matthew Hurst
ICWSM
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Thematic and Social Indicators for Flickr Groups
We study here Flickr groups in order to see whether they are actual communities or rather essentially thematic clusters. We describe a methodological framework for the analysis of...
Christophe Prieur, Nicolas Pissard, Jean-Samuel Be...