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ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Detecting Topic Drift with Compound Topic Models
Dan Knights, Michael C. Mozer, Nicolas Nicolov
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
BlogTrackers: A Tool for Sociologists to Track and Analyze Blogosphere
We present a tool BlogTrackers, which assists sociologists to track and analyze blogs of particular interests by designing and integrating unique features. We present an overview ...
Nitin Agarwal, Shamanth Kumar, Huan Liu, Mark Wood...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Salsa: Leveraging Email to Create a Social Network for the Enterprise
Kristin Brooke Stecher, Scott Counts, Lili Cheng, ...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Categorical Model for Discovering Latent Structure in Social Annotations
The advent of social tagging systems has enabled a new community-based view of the Web in which objects like images, videos, and Web pages are annotated by thousands of users. Und...
Said Kashoob, James Caverlee, Ying Ding
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Information Cascades in the Blogosphere: A Look Behind the Curtain
With an increasing number of people that read, write and comment on blogs, the blogosphere has established itself as an essential medium of communication. A fundamental characteri...
Manos Papagelis, Nilesh Bansal, Nick Koudas
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Event Detection and Tracking in Social Streams
Events and stories can be characterized by a set of descriptive, collocated keywords. Intuitively, documents describing the same event will contain similar sets of keywords, and t...
Hassan Sayyadi, Matthew Hurst, Alexey Maykov
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
You Are Where You Edit: Locating Wikipedia Contributors through Edit Histories
Whether knowingly or otherwise, Wikipedia contributors reveal their interests and expertise through their contribution patterns. An analysis of Wikipedia edit histories shows that...
Michael D. Lieberman, Jimmy Lin
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Sidelines: An Algorithm for Increasing Diversity in News and Opinion Aggregators
Aggregators rely on votes, and links to select and present subsets of the large quantity of news and opinion items generated each day. Opinion and topic diversity in the output se...
Sean A. Munson, Daniel Xiaodan Zhou, Paul Resnick
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Motivational, Structural and Tenure Factors that Impact Online Community Photo Sharing
In recent years, we have witnessed a significant growth of "social computing" services, or online communities where users contribute content in various forms, including ...
Oded Nov, Mor Naaman, Chen Ye
ICWSM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Regression-Based Summarization of Email Conversations
In this paper we present a regression-based machine learning approach to email thread summarization. The regression model is able to take advantage of multiple gold-standard annot...
Jan Ulrich, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray, Ray...