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ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Predicting Outcome for Collaborative Featured Article Nomination in Wikipedia
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...
Meiqun Hu, Ee-Peng Lim, Ramayya Krishnan
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Seeking and Offering Expertise Across Categories: A Sustainable Mechanism Works for Baidu Knows
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...
Jiang Yang, Xiao Wei
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Delta TFIDF: An Improved Feature Space for Sentiment Analysis
Mining opinions and sentiment from social networking sites is a popular application for social media systems. Common approaches use a machine learning system with a bag of words f...
Justin Martineau, Tim Finin
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
From Episodes to Sagas: Understanding the News by Identifying Temporally Related Story Sequences
Current news interfaces are largely driven by recent information, even though many events are better interpreted in context of previous related events. To address this problem, we...
Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Frank Lin, William W. Coh...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Analyzing and Predicting Community Preference of Socially Generated Metadata: A Case Study on Comments in the Digg Community
Large-scale socially-generated metadata is one of the key features driving the growth and success of the emerging Social Web. Recently there have been many research efforts to stu...
Elham Khabiri, Chiao-Fang Hsu, James Caverlee
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Connecting Corresponding Identities across Communities
One of the most interesting challenges in the area of social computing and social media analysis is the so-called community analysis. A well known barrier in cross-community (mult...
Reza Zafarani, Huan Liu
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Blogs as Predictors of Movie Success
Analysis of a comprehensive set of features extracted from blogs for prediction of movie sales is presented. We use correlation, clustering and time-series analysis to study which...
Eldar Sadikov, Aditya G. Parameswaran, Petros Vene...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Emotionality in Text as Predictor of Behavior
The present study demonstrates how the emotional content of search terms and their eventual results affects the breadth of a users' search for information. We observed the qu...
Elliot Onn, Carey K. Morewedge
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Visualizing Cross-Lingual/Cross-Cultural Differences in Concerns in Multilingual Blogs
The goal of this paper is to cross-lingually analyze multilingual blogs collected with a topic keyword. The framework of collecting multilingual blogs with a topic keyword is desi...
Hiroyuki Nakasaki, Mariko Kawaba, Sayuri Yamazaki,...