We analyze the social network emerging from the user comment activity on the website Slashdot. The network presents common features of traditional social networks such as a giant ...
We perform a statistical analysis of user’s reaction time to a new discussion thread in online debates on the popular news site Slashdot. First, we show with KolmogorovSmirnov t...
We analyze the structure and evolution of discussion cascades in four popular websites: Slashdot, Barrapunto, Meneame and Wikipedia. Despite the big heterogeneities between these ...
Mining sentiment from user generated content is a very important task in Natural Language Processing. An example of such content is threaded discussions which act as a very import...
We present an analysis of user conversations in on-line social media and their evolution over time. We propose a dynamic model that predicts the growth dynamics and structural pro...