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IJMMS
2007
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Mining communities and their relationships in blogs: A study of online hate groups
Blogs, often treated as the equivalence of online personal diaries, have become one of the fastest growing types of Web-based media. Everyone is free to express their opinions and...
Michael Chau, Jennifer Jie Xu
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
On profiling blogs with representative entries
With an explosive growth of blogs, information seeking in blogosphere becomes more and more challenging. One example task is to find the most relevant topical blogs against a give...
Jinfeng Zhuang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Aixin Sun
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Blogger, stick to your story: modeling topical noise in blogs with coherence measures
Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...
Jiyin He, Wouter Weerkamp, Martha Larson, Maarten ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Retrieval and feedback models for blog feed search
Blog feed search poses different and interesting challenges from traditional ad hoc document retrieval. The units of retrieval, the blogs, are collections of documents, the blog p...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, J...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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Noteblogging: taking note taking public
Classroom note taking tends to be a private activity, hiding a wealth of knowledge in both content and method. With the advent of the web, whose technology and culture seemingly i...
Beth Simon, Krista Davis, William G. Griswold, Mic...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Bayesian Based Comment Spam Defending Tool
Spam messes up user's inbox, consumes network resources and spread worms and viruses. Spam is flooding of unsolicited, unwanted e mail. Spam in blogs is called blog spam or c...
Dhinaharan Nagamalai, Beatrice Cynthia Dhinakaran,...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
America is like Metamucil: fostering critical and creative thinking about metaphor in political blogs
Blogs are becoming an increasingly important medium-socially, academically, and politically. Much research has involved analyzing blogs, but less work has considered how such anal...
Eric P. S. Baumer, Jordan Sinclair, Bill Tomlinson
TREC
2007
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Lymba's PowerAnswer 4 in TREC 2007
This paper reports on Lymba Corporation’s (a spinoff of Language Computer Corporation) participation in the TREC 2007 Question Answering track. An overview of the PowerAnswer 4 ...
Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Moldovan Bowden
MC
2007
14 years 8 days ago
The Chinese and the German Blogosphere: An Empirical and Comparative Analysis
Chinese and German blogs do not only differ in the language of their text but also in many other aspects. This study explores how far these differences can be identified and relat...
Yilin He, Folker Caroli, Thomas Mandl
ICWSM
2008
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iBlogVis: An Interactive Blog Visualization Tool
We developed and evaluated a visualization tool for browsing individual blog archives. In our study, we solicited qualitative feedback from the participants to explore the reasons...
Indratmo, Julita Vassileva