In this paper, we attempt to specify the influencer and the influential terms in consumer package goods by using the influence diffusion model (IDM). IDM calculates the spread of ...
We describe work on automatically assigning labels to books using user-defined tags as the label set. Using supervised learning and exploring both binary and multiclass classifica...
Given the rise in popularity of social tagging systems, it seems only natural to ask how efficient is the organically evolved tagging vocabulary in describing underlying document ...
As users navigate online social spaces, they encounter numerous personal profiles, each displaying a unique constellation of attributes. How do users make sense of this informatio...
In this article, we propose that blog communities can enhance knowledge transfer in organization. They do so by shaping bloggers' group (subordinate) and organizational (supe...
In social bookmarking systems users describe bookmarks by keywords called tags. The structure behind these social systems, called folksonomies, can be viewed as a tripartite hyper...
The use of social technologies is becoming ubiquitous in the lives of average computer users. However, social media has yet to infiltrate users television experiences. This paper ...
In this paper, we describe our Brand Association MapTM (BAM) tool which maps and visualizes the way consumers naturally think and talk about brands across billions of unaided conv...
On-line discussions are composed of multiple inter-woven threads, regardless of whether that threaded structure is made explicit in the representation and presentation of the conv...
Yi-Chia Wang, Mahesh Joshi, William W. Cohen, Caro...