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ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Self-Presentation of Personality During Online Profile Creation
When users present themselves in a social networking community, they are called on to create profiles that are representative and portray a desired image. In this paper, we examin...
Scott Counts, Kristin Brooke Stecher
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network
We present a novel problem of searching for `familiar strangers' in a social network. Familiar strangers are individuals who are not directly connected but exhibit some simil...
Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Sudheendra Murthy, Arunab...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Compositionality Principle in Recognition of Fine-Grained Emotions from Text
The recognition of personal emotional state or sentiment conveyed through text is the main task we address in our research. The communication of emotions through text messaging an...
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Is...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
High-level Features for Learning Subjective Language across Domains
In this paper, we propose to study the characteristics for analyzing subjective content in documents. For that purpose, we present and evaluate a novel method based on abstraction...
Gaël Dias, Dinko Dimchev Lambov, Veska Nonche...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Blogging Together: An Examination of Group Blogs
This paper presents the first examination of the growing phenomenon of multi-author, or group blogs. Using a large collection of blog posts gathered over an eight month period, we...
Marti A. Hearst, Susan T. Dumais
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Navigation Patterns from and to Social Media
With the rapid rise of social media content, the question how people navigate to and from social media becomes important in order to understand what new tools and approaches are m...
Michael Gamon, Arnd Christian König
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
A Comparative Analysis of Trust-Enhanced Recommenders for Controversial Items
A particularly challenging task for recommender systems (RSs) is deciding whether to recommend an item that received a variety of high and low scores from its users. RSs that inco...
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Martine De Cock, ...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Predicting Outcome for Collaborative Featured Article Nomination in Wikipedia
In Wikipedia, good articles are wanted. While Wikipedia relies on collaborative effort from online volunteers for quality checking, the process of selecting top quality articles i...
Meiqun Hu, Ee-Peng Lim, Ramayya Krishnan
ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Seeking and Offering Expertise Across Categories: A Sustainable Mechanism Works for Baidu Knows
This paper presents the first comprehensive exploration of the largest Chinese online knowledge sharing communityBaidu Knows. With analyzing 5.2 millions questions and 2.7 million...
Jiang Yang, Xiao Wei