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ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Generated Wikipedia Profiles Using Social Labeling and Automatic Keyword Extraction
In many collaborative systems, researchers are interested in creating representative user profiles. In this paper, we are particularly interested in using social labeling and auto...
Terrell Russell, Bongwon Suh, Ed H. Chi
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Information Seeking Using Search Engines and Social Networks
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Katrina Pano...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Second Chance to Make a First Impression: Factors Affecting the Longevity of Online Dating Relationships
This research explored the transition of romantic relationships from meeting online to the first face-to-face date. It is inevitable that impressions of a partner will change to s...
Lindsay Shaw Taylor, Andrew T. Fiore, G. A. Mendel...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Mobilizing Lurkers with a Targeted Task
Users of online communities are commonly classified into active members versus lurkers. In this work we experiment with a method designed to encourage lurkers to share their acqui...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Tweeting from the Town Square: Measuring Geographic Local Networks
This paper examines tweets about two geographically local events--a shooting and a building collapse--that took place in Wichita, Kansas and Atlanta, Georgia, respectively. Most I...
Sarita Yardi, Danah Boyd
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
What's Worthy of Comment? Content and Comment Volume in Political Blogs
In this paper we aim to model the relationship between the text of a political blog post and the comment volume--that is, the total amount of response--that a post will receive. W...
Tae Yano, Noah A. Smith
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
TweetMotif: Exploratory Search and Topic Summarization for Twitter
We present TweetMotif, an exploratory search application for Twitter. Unlike traditional approaches to information retrieval, which present a simple list of messages, TweetMotif g...
Brendan O'Connor, Michel Krieger, David Ahn
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Star Quality: Aggregating Reviews to Rank Products and Merchants
Given a set of reviews of products or merchants from a wide range of authors and several reviews websites, how can we measure the true quality of the product or merchant? How do w...
Mary McGlohon, Natalie S. Glance, Zach Reiter
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Governance in Social Media: A Case Study of the Wikipedia Promotion Process
Social media sites are often guided by a core group of committed users engaged in various forms of governance. A crucial aspect of this type of governance is deliberation, in whic...
Jure Leskovec, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Klei...