In many collaborative systems, researchers are interested in creating representative user profiles. In this paper, we are particularly interested in using social labeling and auto...
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
This research explored the transition of romantic relationships from meeting online to the first face-to-face date. It is inevitable that impressions of a partner will change to s...
Lindsay Shaw Taylor, Andrew T. Fiore, G. A. Mendel...
Users of online communities are commonly classified into active members versus lurkers. In this work we experiment with a method designed to encourage lurkers to share their acqui...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
This paper examines tweets about two geographically local events--a shooting and a building collapse--that took place in Wichita, Kansas and Atlanta, Georgia, respectively. Most I...
In this paper we aim to model the relationship between the text of a political blog post and the comment volume--that is, the total amount of response--that a post will receive. W...
We present TweetMotif, an exploratory search application for Twitter. Unlike traditional approaches to information retrieval, which present a simple list of messages, TweetMotif g...
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...
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...