When users present themselves in a social networking community, they are called on to create profiles that are representative and portray a desired image. In this paper, we examin...
We present a novel problem of searching for `familiar strangers' in a social network. Familiar strangers are individuals who are not directly connected but exhibit some simil...
The recognition of personal emotional state or sentiment conveyed through text is the main task we address in our research. The communication of emotions through text messaging an...
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Is...
In this paper, we propose to study the characteristics for analyzing subjective content in documents. For that purpose, we present and evaluate a novel method based on abstraction...
This paper presents the first examination of the growing phenomenon of multi-author, or group blogs. Using a large collection of blog posts gathered over an eight month period, we...
With the rapid rise of social media content, the question how people navigate to and from social media becomes important in order to understand what new tools and approaches are m...
A particularly challenging task for recommender systems (RSs) is deciding whether to recommend an item that received a variety of high and low scores from its users. RSs that inco...
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Martine De Cock, ...
In Wikipedia, good articles are wanted. While Wikipedia relies on collaborative effort from online volunteers for quality checking, the process of selecting top quality articles i...
This paper presents the first comprehensive exploration of the largest Chinese online knowledge sharing communityBaidu Knows. With analyzing 5.2 millions questions and 2.7 million...