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ICWSM
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
While previous studies have used the Wikipedia dataset to provide an understanding of its growth, there have been few attempts to quantitatively analyze the establishment and evol...
Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean, David W. McDon...
ICWSM
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Preliminary Semantic Analysis of Political Blogs
In this paper, we present a series of semantic analyses of words in political blogs in the setting of categorization of two opposite political orientations: liberal vs. conservati...
Maojin Jiang, Shlomo Argamon
ICWSM
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Understanding the Efficiency of Social Tagging Systems using Information Theory
Given the rise in popularity of social tagging systems, it seems only natural to ask how efficient is the organically evolved tagging vocabulary in describing underlying document ...
Ed H. Chi, Todd Mytkowicz
ICWSM
2008
14 years 11 months ago
The Politics of Sourcing: A Study of Journalistic Practices in the Blogosphere
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...
Gina Walejko, Thomas Ksiazek
ICWSM
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents
Identifying topics and concepts associated with a set of documents is a task common to many applications. It can help in the annotation and categorization of documents and be used...
Zareen Saba Syed, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi