Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Hayes, Conor"
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Advances in Understanding, Mining, and Using People-Tags
Nasirifard, Peyman (2012-05-31)People-tagging involves the process of adding non-hierarchical metadata to users of a system. Such metadata facilitates organising contacts and building user profiles in a collaborative fashion. People-tag-based user ... -
Diffusion-based models for semantic relatedness
Torres-Tramón, Pablo (NUI Galway, 2020-05-14)The assessment of semantic relatedness for a given pair of entities in a knowledge graph has become a critical step in a wide variety of artificial intelligence tasks, including but not restricted to fields such as machine ... -
Methods for defining dynamic online communities and community detection in fast-paced social media streams
Hromic, Hugo (NUI Galway, 2019-05-02)Microblogging social media focuses on fast open real-time communication using short messages between users and their followers. Twitter is currently one of the largest and widely known microblogging OSN in the world, with ... -
Online community success - A study of success criteria and user behaviour in online communities
Aumayr, Erik (NUI Galway, 2017-10-27)In a world where online users form communities for various purposes and around many different topics of interest, it has become of social and economic importance for owners, providers and managers of online communities to ... -
An open framework for multi-source, cross-domain personalisation with semantic interest graphs
Heitmann, Benjamin (2014-12-28)The work in this thesis addresses new challenges and opportunities for online personalisation posed by the emergence of new infrastructures for sharing user preferences and for access to open repositories of data. As a ... -
Processing linked data on lightweight computing devices
Le-Tuan, Anh (NUI Galway, 2021-06-01)The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling innovative and smarter domestic and commercial services. Due to the lack of skill and technology to make sense of IoT data, the full potential of the available ... -
Semantic network analysis for unsupervised topic linking and labelling
Hulpus, Ioana (2014-10-24)We rely more and more on machines to organise, analyse and summarise the vast amount of textual digital information that is being produced at a rate never seen before. At the same time, we notice an increase in availability ... -
A structural approach to community-level social influence analysis
Belák, Václav (2014-04-10)Social communities shape the way people interact. E.g. members of online discussion communities frequently exchange information, experience, or knowledge about practically anything from software to bird watching. The rising ...