Tuesday, May 27, 2008

New Reading List, II

Anyone who would like to enter the second round of oral presentations can consider the following reading list. If you decide to do so, please let me know.

Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something
Lada A. Adamic, Jun Zhang, Eytan Bakshy, Mark S. Ackerman
April 2008
WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Publisher: ACM
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Yahoo Answers (YA) is a large and diverse question-answer forum, acting not only as a medium for sharing technical knowledge, but as a place where one can seek advice, gather opinions, and satisfy one's curiosity about a countless number of things. In ...

Keywords: expertise finding, help seeking, knowledge sharing, online communities, question answering, social network analysis


Yes, there is a correlation: - from social networks to personal behavior on the web
Parag Singla, Matthew Richardson
April 2008
WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Publisher: ACM
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Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this paper, we apply data mining techniques to study this relationship for a population ...

Keywords: demographics, instant messaging, search, social networks

Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in slashdot
Vicenç Gómez, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Vicente López
April 2008
WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Publisher: ACM
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We analyze the social network emerging from the user comment activity on the website Slashdot. The network presents common features of traditional social networks such as a giant component, small average path length and high clustering, but differs from ...

Keywords: bulletin board, h-index, log-normal, online communities, power-law, radial tree, social networks, thread, weblogs

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