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MANSCI
2006
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Strategic Manipulation of Internet Opinion Forums: Implications for Consumers and Firms
There is growing evidence that consumers are influenced by Internet-based opinion forums before making a variety of purchase decisions. Firms whose products are being discussed in...
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
AAAI
2010
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Adopting Inference Networks for Online Thread Retrieval
Online forums contain valuable human-generated information. End-users looking for information would like to find only those threads in forums where relevant information is present...
Sumit Bhatia, Prasenjit Mitra
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
It pays to be picky: an evaluation of thread retrieval in online forums
Online forums host a rich information exchange, often with contributions from many subject matter experts. In this work we evaluate algorithms for thread retrieval in a large and ...
Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Carbonell
KDD
2009
ACM
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User grouping behavior in online forums
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
Xiaolin Shi, Jun Zhu, Rui Cai, Lei Zhang