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Social media repositories serve as a significant source of evidence when extracting information related to the reputation of a particular entity (e.g., a particular politician, singer or company). Reputation management experts manually mine the social media repositories (in particular Twitter) for monitoring the reputation of a particular entity. Recently, the online reputation management evaluation...
News blogs provide valuable insights into various news events and serve as "opinion pieces" with respect to the different happenings around the world. This demonstration paper presents a visual analytics system for these blogs, the system aims to facilitate news consumers by clustering the various blogposts along different topical dimensions. Moreover, the predictive module within the system...
Despite the usage of Facebook data by researchers for various types of personality analyses there has been no investigation into the "comment-liking" feature of Facebook. Two studies are performed which analyse the link between narcissism and users' interactions on Facebook. Firstly, comment-liking activity is measured and this is compared to narcissism scores. Secondly, measures of promotional...
Web 2.0 technologies have given birth to the blogosphere, which is an information sharing medium by the users for the users. Furthermore, these technologies have also expanded the search problem to a new form of search known as blog search. Similar to Web search, blog search has been affected by spam which affects the quality of search results. This paper approaches the relevant blog problem in the...
Social media platforms have become a forum for giving a voice to the masses with a significant proportion of those masses coming from the developing world. This was largely evidenced through the significant role played by social media platforms in the recent uprisings in the Arab world. In this paper, we take up a study of social media engagement patterns of users from the developing world through...
A web crawler forms the backbone of a search engine and this backbone needs a careful re- assessment that could enhance the efficiency of search engines. This paper conducts such a re- assessment from the perspective of systems and this is achieved through implementation and analysis of a web crawler "VisionerBOT" as a feed forward engine for search engines using the MapReduce distributed...
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