Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Commons^™

Exploiting Social Media Sources For Search, Fusion And Evaluation, Chia-Jung Lee

Doctoral Dissertations

The web contains heterogeneous information that is generated with different characteristics and is presented via different media. Social media, as one of the largest content carriers, has generated information from millions of users worldwide, creating material rapidly in all types of forms such as comments, images, tags, videos and ratings, etc. In social applications, the formation of online communities contributes to conversations of substantially broader aspects, as well as unfiltered opinions about subjects that are rarely covered in public media. Information accrued on social platforms, therefore, presents a unique opportunity to augment web sources such as Wikipedia or news pages, …