After fifteen years of CBR conferences, this paper sets out to examine the themes that have evolved in CBR research as revealed by the implicit and explicit relationships between the conference papers. We have examined a ...
In online social media, individuals produce vast amounts of content which in effect "instruments" the world around us. Users on sites such as Twitter are publicly broadcasting status updates that provide an indication of ...
Assessing the trustworthiness of reviews is a key issue for
the maintainers of opinion sites such as TripAdvisor. In this
paper we propose a distortion criterion for assessing the impact
of methods for uncovering ...
We apply methods from social network analysis and visualization to facilitate a study of the Irish blogosphere from a cultural studies perspective. We focus on solving the practical issues that arise when the goal is to ...
Assessing the trustworthiness of reviews is a key issue for the maintainers of opinion sites such as TripAdvisor, given the rewards that can be derived from posting false or biased reviews. In this paper we present a number ...
Uncovering community structure is a core challenge in social network analysis. This is a significant challenge for large networks where there is a single type of relation in the network (e.g. friend or knows). In practice ...
Non-Negative matrix factorization (NMF) has emerged as an important technique for simplifying high-dimension data into interpretable factors. NMF has the attractive characteristic that the factor matrices are naturally ...
A common task in many domains with a temporal aspect involves identifying and tracking clusters over time. Often dynamic data will have a feature-based representation. In some cases, a direct mapping will exist for both ...
The task of identifying sentiment trends in the popular media has long been of interest to analysts and pundits. Until recently, this task has required professional annotators to manually inspect individual articles in ...
Real-world social networks from a variety of domains can naturally be modelled as dynamic graphs. However, approaches to detecting communities have largely focused on identifying communities in static graphs. Recently, ...
Tracking sentiment in the popular media has long been of interest to media analysts and pundits. With the availability of news content via online syndicated feeds, it is now possible to automate some aspects of this process. ...