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On the correlation between topic and user behaviour in online communities
(ICWSM-16, 2016-05-20)
In the advancement of a better understanding of user behaviour on the Internet, clustering approaches are used as a means to group and categorise online communities. Although clustering approaches indicate similarity between ...
Tell me who are your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are
(AICS 2016, 2016-09-20)
Mentions of politicians in news articles can reflect politician interactions on their daily activities. In this work, we present a mathematical model to represent such interactions as a graph, and we use it to predict the ...
Separating the wheat from the chaff: Evaluating success determinants for online Q&A communities
(NUI Galway, 2017-05-15)
Researchers and community managers try to measure the success of online communities using a variety of success determinants, such as member activity, turnover and interaction. Although many success determinants have been ...
XPLODIV: An exploitation-exploration aware diversification approach for Recommender Systems
(AAAI Press, 2015-07)
Recommender Systems (RS) have emerged to guide users in the task of efficiently browsing/exploring a large product space, helping users to quickly identify interesting products. However, suggestions generated with traditional ...
Modelling User Behaviour in Online Q&A Communities for Customer Support
(Springer, 2014)
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Characterising and evaluating online communities from live microblogging user interactions
(NUI Galway, 2018-07-03)
Microblogging (mainly represented by Twitter) is
a type of social media that focuses on fast open real-time
communication using short messages between users and their
followers. This system is attractive due to its open ...
Targeting online communities to maximise information diffusion
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2012-04)
In recent years, many companies have started to utilise online social communities as a means of communicating with and targeting their employees and customers. Such online communities include discussion fora which are ...
Decomposing Discussion Forums using User Roles
(http://www.websci10.org, 2010)
Discussion forums are a central part of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 infrastructures. The health and sustainability of forums is dependent on the information exchange behaviour of its members. Such behaviour needs to be ...
Using Tags and Clustering to Identify Topic-Relevant Blogs
(IAAA, 2007)
The Web has experienced an exponential growth in the use of weblogs or blogs. Blog entries are generally organised using tags, informally defined labels which are increasingly being proposed as a `grassroots¿ answer to ...
Extracting and Utilizing Social Networks from Log Files of Shared Workspaces
(Springer, 2009)
Log files of online shared workspaces contain rich information that can be further analyzed. In this paper, log-file information is used to extract object-centric and user-centric social networks. The object-centric social ...