Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace
by Eytan Adar and Lada A. Adamic (WI2005; adar2005) The authors study the paths along which information spreads in the "blog network". They consider the task...
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A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network
by Cha et al. (cha2009) at the WWW 2009 The authors present a study on viral information propagation which is based on crawls of the favorite markings of 2.5...
Learning information diffusion process on the web
by Wan, X. and Yang, J (wan2007) The authors present an approach which identifies the diffusion process for a particular topic. Sets of documents with a give...
Finding and tracking subjects within an ongoing debate
by Rudy Prabowo and Mike Thelwall (prabowo2008) This article tracks subjects in postings and bulletins by identifying co-occurring terms which represent thes...
Learning influence probabilities in social networks
by Goyal et al. (goya2010) The article's authors learn influence models based on social graphs and an action log Based on the learned models they are able ...
Information flow modeling based on diffusion rate for prediction and ranking
by Song et al. (song2007) Song et al. investigate the information flow in a user network. They try to (i) predict where information flows and (ii) who will m...
Using text mining and sentiment analysis for online forum hotspot detection
by Nan Li and Desheng Dash Wu (Decision Support Systems) The authors combine the following five features to detect forum hotspots using either (i) K-means cl...
Leveraging Sentiment Analysis for Topic Detection
by Cai et al (IBM China Research Lab) *** The authors combine sentiment detection with identifying the terms that are highly correlated to a specific sentime...
Sentiment Analysis of Blogs by Combining Lexical Knowledge with Text Classification
by Melvile et al (IBM Watson Research Centre) ***** Analyzing blog posts raises a number of interesting questions: how to identify the subset of blogs discu...
Envisioning Intelligent Information Technologies through the Prism of Web Intelligence
Zhong et al. (Communications of the ACM) - coined the term Web Intelligence (see literature) This article introduces intelligent Information Technology (iIT)...
What makes a helpful online Review?
Mudambi and Schuff This article presents a model for the helpfulness of customer reviews which is verified based on Amazon reviews. The article is quite inte...
Data Mining for Web Intelligence
by Han and Chen-Chuan This article discusses data mining as key technology for bringing intelligence and direction to our Web interactions. At first they dis...
Using Ontological Contexts to Assess the Relevance of Statements in Ontology Evolution
by Fouad Zablith, Mathieu d'Aquin, Marta Sabou, and Enrico Motta This work describes a method for judging the relevance statements suggested by ontology evol...
On How to Perform a Gold Standard Based Evaluation of Ontology Learning
by K. Dellschaft and St. Staab This work provides an excellent overview of ontology evaluation measures, specifies criteria for good measures and introduces ...
Notions of Correctness when Evaluating Protein Name Taggers
by Olsson et al. This paper introduces six notions of correctness to evaluate the performance of protein name taggers: sloppy - which means that the propose...