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ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
CourseRank: A Closed-Community Social System through the Magnifying Glass
Social sites are extremely popular among users but user interactions in most sites revolve around relatively simple tasks, such as uploading resources, tagging and poking friends....
Georgia Koutrika, Benjamin Bercovitz, Filip Kalisz...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Blog Dynamics
How do blogs produce posts? What local, underlying mechanisms lead to the bursty temporal behaviors observed in blog networks? Earlier work analyzed network patterns of blogs and ...
Michaela Goetz, Jure Leskovec, Mary McGlohon, Chri...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Targeting Sentiment Expressions through Supervised Ranking of Linguistic Configurations
User generated content is extremely valuable for mining market intelligence because it is unsolicited. We study the problem of analyzing users' sentiment and opinion in their...
Jason S. Kessler, Nicolas Nicolov
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Trust Incident Account Model: Preliminary Indicators for Trust Rhetoric and Trust or Distrust in Blogs
This paper defines a concept of trust incident accounts as verbal reports of empirical episodes in which a trustor has reached a state of positive or negative expectations of a tr...
Victoria L. Rubin
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion through Facebook News Feed
Whether they are modeling bookmarking behavior in Flickr or cascades of failure in large networks, models of diffusion often start with the assumption that a few nodes start long ...
Eric Sun, Itamar Rosenn, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M....
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
The Evolution of Scientific Paper Title Networks
In spite of enormous previous efforts to model the growth of various networks, there have only been a few works that successfully describe the evolution of latent networks. In a l...
Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles
This paper contributes to the study of self-presentation in online dating systems by performing a factor analysis on the text portions of online profiles. Findings include a simil...
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Marti A. Hearst
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Analysis of Social Influence in Online Book Reviews
It has been widely recognized that online opinions constitute important informational sources for consumers and producers. The open nature of communication supported by social med...
Patty Sakunkoo, Nathan Sakunkoo
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks
Gephi is an open source software for graph and network analysis. It uses a 3D render engine to display large networks in real-time and to speed up the exploration. A flexible and ...
Mathieu Bastian, Sebastien Heymann, Mathieu Jacomy
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
From Generating to Mining: Automatically Scripting Conversations Using Existing Online Sources
Hearing people argue opposing sides of an issue can be a useful way to understand the topic; however, these debates or conversations often don't exist. Unfortunately, generat...
Nathan D. Nichols, Lisa M. Gandy, Kristian J. Hamm...