The user-generated content represents an increasing share of the information available today. To make this type of content instantly accessible in another language, the ACCEPT project focuses on developing pre-editing technologies for correcting the source text in order to increase its translatability. Linguistically-informed pre-editing rules have been developed for English and French for the ...

Tagging sites allow users to post information and organize it with tags for future retrieval and to optionally share their entries with others or keep them private. Some tagging sites also allow users to add personal reviews to their entries. Sites that offer publicly available information that includes user-generated reviews are designed to function as social recommendation systems. However, s...

Expressions of emotion abound in user-generated content, whether it be in blogs, reviews, or on social media. Much work has been devoted to detecting and classifying these emotions, but little of it has acknowledged the fact that emotionally charged text may express multiple emotions at the same time. We describe a new dataset of user-generated movie reviews annotated for emotional expressions,...

T paper studies competition between firms whose “products” (content) are generated by their customers (users). Video sharing sites, social networks, online games, etc. all rely heavily on user-generated content and have been growing significantly in the last decade. We model a Hotelling style market in which consumers have heterogeneous tastes along a circular city. In a first step, we consider...

The power of the Web revolution came with making everyone a publisher, rather than just a consumer of information. However, as the prevailing interfaces to the Web require a high degree of literacy and full-fledged computer access, much of the world’s population lacks the skills or resources needed to create online content. In this work, we aim to lower the barrier to sharing local information ...