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Feature-Based Opinion Mining And Ranking, Magdalini Eirinaki, S. Pisal, J. Singh
Feature-Based Opinion Mining And Ranking, Magdalini Eirinaki, S. Pisal, J. Singh
Magdalini Eirinaki
The proliferation of blogs and social networks presents a new set of challenges and opportunities in the way information is searched and retrieved. Even though facts still play a very important role when information is sought on a topic, opinions have become increasingly important as well. Opinions expressed in blogs and social networks are playing an important role influencing everything from the products people buy to the presidential candidate they support. Thus, there is a need for a new type of search engine which will not only retrieve facts, but will also enable the retrieval of opinions. Such a search …
Identification Of Influential Social Networkers, Magdalini Eirinaki, S. P. Singh Monga, S. Sundaram
Identification Of Influential Social Networkers, Magdalini Eirinaki, S. P. Singh Monga, S. Sundaram
Magdalini Eirinaki
Online social networking is deeply interleaved in today's lifestyle. People come together and build communities to share thoughts, offer suggestions, exchange information, ideas, and opinions. Moreover, social networks often serve as platforms for information dissemination and product placement or promotion through viral marketing. The success rate in this type of marketing could be increased by targeting specific individuals, called 'influential users', having the largest possible reach within an online community. In this paper, we present a method aiming at identifying the influential users within an online social networking application. We introduce ProfileRank, a metric that uses popularity and activity characteristics …