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ICWSM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
TweetMotif: Exploratory Search and Topic Summarization for Twitter
We present TweetMotif, an exploratory search application for Twitter. Unlike traditional approaches to information retrieval, which present a simple list of messages, TweetMotif g...
Brendan O'Connor, Michel Krieger, David Ahn
ICWSM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Star Quality: Aggregating Reviews to Rank Products and Merchants
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...
Mary McGlohon, Natalie S. Glance, Zach Reiter
ICWSM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Governance in Social Media: A Case Study of the Wikipedia Promotion Process
Social media sites are often guided by a core group of committed users engaged in various forms of governance. A crucial aspect of this type of governance is deliberation, in whic...
Jure Leskovec, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Klei...
ICWSM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Microblogging Inside and Outside the Workplace
Microblogging has recently generated a lot of research interest. Yet very little is known about how corporate employees use microblogging tools. This study examined microblogging ...
Kate Ehrlich, N. Sadat Shami
ICWSM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Trading Strategies to Exploit Blog and News Sentiment
We use quantitative media (blogs, and news as a comparison) data generated by a large-scale natural language processing (NLP) text analysis system to perform a comprehensive and c...
Wenbin Zhang, Steven Skiena
ICWSM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Comparing Information Diffusion Structure in Weblogs and Microblogs
To better understand and characterize the emerging social medium of microblogging we conducted a comparison between Twitter and a weblog network for their respective information d...
Jiang Yang, Scott Counts
ICWSM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
User Acceptance of Micro-Blogging in the Enterprise
In this paper, following the IT acceptance theory framework, we analyze factors that affect users' acceptance of micro-blogging in a large corporate environment. We categoriz...
Jun Zhang, Yan Qu, Derek Hansen
ICWSM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Characterizing Microblogs with Topic Models
As microblogging grows in popularity, services like Twitter are coming to support information gathering needs above and beyond their traditional roles as social networks. But most...
Daniel Ramage, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling
ICWSM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series
We connect measures of public opinion measured from polls with sentiment measured from text. We analyze several surveys on consumer confidence and political opinion over the 2008 ...
Brendan O'Connor, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Bryan R...