Browsing School of Computer Science and Informatics by Subject "User generated content"

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Distortion as a validation criterion in the identification of suspicious reviews

Wu, Guangyu ; Greene, Derek ; Smyth, Barry ; Cunningham, Pádraig (University College Dublin, 2010-05-02)

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 ...
Terms of a feather : content-based news discovery and recommendation using Twitter

Phelan, Owen ; McCarthy, Kevin ; Smyth, Barry ; Bennett, Mike (Springer, 2011-04-19)

User-generated content has dominated the web’s recent growth and today the so-called real-time web provides us with unprecedented access to the real-time opinions, views, and ratings of millions of users. For example, ...