Abstract. User generated content in general, and blogs in particular, form an interesting and relatively little explored domain for mining knowledge. We address the task of blog di...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
The last decade has seen an explosion in blogging and the blogosphere is continuing to grow, having a large global reach and many vibrant communities. Researchers have been pouring...
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 ...
Abstract. Just-In-Time Information Retrieval agents proactively retrieve information based on queries that are implicit in, and formulated from, the user's current context, su...
Digital media lowers barriers to entry and has the ability to renegotiate traditional news-making power structures. However, it remains to be seen whether or not the people that u...